Postoperative brachytherapy alone for T1-2 N0 squamous cell carcinomas of the oral tongue and floor of mouth with close or positive margins

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-42

  Lapeyre, Michel ^a   Hoffstetter, Sylvette ^a   Peiffert, Didier ^a   Guérif, Stéphane ^a   Maire, François ^a   Dolivet, Gilles ^a   Toussaint, Bruno ^b   Mundt, Arno ^c   Chassagne, Jean François ^b   Simon, Claude ^b   Bey, Pierre ^a  

^a CENTRE ALEXIS VAUTRIN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Head and neck; Oral cavity; Positive margins; Postoperative

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RELAPSE; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; TECHNIQUE; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH FLOOR; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIATION INJURIES; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 18544407354     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00538-1     Document Type: Article

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