High-dose-rate endorectal brachytherapy in the treatment of locally advanced rectal carcinoma: Technical aspects

Brachytherapy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 230-235

  Vuong, Té ^a,b   Devic, Slobodan ^a   Moftah, Belal ^a   Evans, Michael ^a   Podgorsak, Ervin B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

High dose rate endorectal brachytherapy; Preoperative downstaging modality; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLIP; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SIMULATOR; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 25144448513     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2005.03.006     Document Type: Article

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