Interstitial high dose rate brachytherapy in locally progressive or recurrent head and neck cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4 A, 1999, Pages 2695-2697

  Krüll, Andreas ^a   Friedrich, Reinhard E ^a   Schwarz, Rudolf ^a   Thurmann, Horst ^a   Schmelzle, Rainer ^a   Alberti, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Oral and oropharyngeal carcinoma

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVICE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPERESTHESIA; INTRATUMORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ULCER;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 18844468340     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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