Lymphatic fistulas: Obliteration by low-dose radiotherapy

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 181, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 660-664

  Mayer, Ramona ^a   Sminia, Peter ^b   McBride, William H ^c   Stranzl, Heidi ^a   Prettenhofer, Ulrike ^a   Fruhwirth, Johannes ^a   Poschauko, Johann ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Lymphatic fistulas; Lymphorrhea; Radiobiology; Radiotherapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASS; FISTULA; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHATIC FISTULA; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; LYMPHORRHEA; MALE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RISK REDUCTION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL WOUND; VARICOSIS; VEIN SURGERY;

AGED; CUTANEOUS FISTULA; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 26444476381     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-005-1393-8     Document Type: Article

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