Feasibility report for retreatment of locally recurrent head-and-neck cancers by combined brachy-chemotherapy using frameless image-guided 3D interstitial brachytherapy

Brachytherapy

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 154-162

  Krempien, Robert C ^a   Grehn, Christian ^a   Haag, Claudia ^a   Straulino, Anika ^b   Hensley, Frank W ^a   Kotrikova, Bibiana ^a   Hofele, Christof ^a   Debus, Juergen ^a   Harms, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Frameless image guidance; Needle placement; Oropharyngeal carcinoma; Pulsed dose rate; Re irradiation

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT CANCER; RETREATMENT; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE NECROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOPSY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18844406457     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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