Enlarged axillary nodes and position of the arms in axillary irradiation: A computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging evaluation

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 182-185

  Pergolizzi, Stefano ^a,c   Settineri, Nicola ^a   Ascenti, Giorgio ^a   Blandino, Alfredo ^a   Santacaterina, Anna ^b   Frosina, Pasquale ^a   De Renzis, Costantino ^a   Di Pasquale, Andrea ^a   Gaeta, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BODY POSITION; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMERUS HEAD; IRRADIATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1842627764     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860310022355     Document Type: Article

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