Small bowel displacement system-assisted intensity-modulated radiotherapy for cervical cancer

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 400-406

  Huh, Seung Jae ^a   Kang, Min Kyu ^a   Han, Youngyih ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Pelvic irradiation; Small bowel displacement system; Small bowel morbidity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SMALL INTESTINE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TARGET CELL DESTRUCTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; PRONE POSITION; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1942476868     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2004.01.023     Document Type: Article

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