The role of interstitial brachytherapy in the treatment of vaginal and vulvar malignancies

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 142-148

  Seeger, Annedore R ^a   Windschall, Andrea ^a   Lotter, Michael ^a   Mehlhorn, Grit ^a   Beckmann, Matthias W ^a   Sauer, Rolf ^a   Strnad, Vratislav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interstitial brachytherapy; PDR; Vaginal malignancies; Vulvar cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; LYMPH NODE; METASTASIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PELVIS; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA CANCER; VULVA CANCER; VULVA CARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CLASSIFICATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VAGINA TUMOR; VULVA TUMOR;

BRACHYTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33646091315     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-006-1461-8     Document Type: Article

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