Postlumpectomy insertion of the MammoSite brachytherapy device using the scar entry technique: Initial experience and technical considerations

Breast Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 199-203

  Stolier, Alan J ^a   Fuhrman, George M ^b   Scroggins, Troy G ^b   Boyer, Cynthia I ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Breast cancer; Radiation; Surgery; Treatment

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DESQUAMATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; IRRADIATION; MORBIDITY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DERMATITIS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALLOON DILATATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CICATRIX; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18644362924     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1075-122X.2005.21618.x     Document Type: Article

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