A multi-institutional retrospective analysis of external radiotherapy for mucosal melanoma of the head and neck in Northern Japan

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 495-500

  Wada, Hitoshi ^a,b   Nemoto, Kenji ^a   Ogawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Hareyama, Masato ^a   Yoshida, Hiroshi ^a   Takamura, Akio ^a   Ohmori, Keiichi ^a   Hamamoto, Yasushi ^a   Sugita, Tadashi ^a   Saitoh, Mari ^a   Yamada, Shogo ^a  

^a Yamagata City Hospital   (Japan)

^b Yamagata City Hospital Saiseikan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Fractionation; Head and neck; Mucosal melanoma; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATES;

ONCOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MUCOSA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; ULCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 2442564672     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2003.11.013     Document Type: Article

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