Radiation injury to the liver after intensity-modulated radiation therapy in patients with mesothelioma: An unusual CT appearance

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1091-1095

  Munden, Reginald F ^a   Erasmus, Jeremy J ^a   Smythe, William R ^b   Madewell, John E ^a   Forster, Kenneth M ^a   Stevens, Craig W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIVER INJURY; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IOHEXOL;

AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONECTOMY; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 18244369510     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.184.4.01841091     Document Type: Article

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