Definitive radiotherapy with interstitial implant boost for squamos cell carcinoma of the tongue base

Head and Neck

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 353-361

  Karakoyun Celik, Omur ^a   Norris Jr , Charles M ^b   Tishler, Roy ^b,c   Mahadevan, Anand ^d   Clark, John R ^a   Goldberg, Saveli ^a   Devlin, Phillip ^c   Busse, Paul M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Interstitial implant; Tongue base

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BONE NECROSIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN PRESERVATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECURRENT CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 17844400921     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20171     Document Type: Article

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