The Effect of Belly Board Location in Rectal Cancer Patients Treated with Preoperative Radiotherapy

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 441-446

  Lee, Seok Ho ^a   Kim, Tae Hyun ^a   Kim, Dae Yong ^a   Cho, Kwan Ho ^a   Kim, Joo Young ^a   Park, Sung Yong ^a   Kim, Dae Hyun ^a   Lim, Seok Byung ^a   Choi, Hyo Seong ^a   Chang, Hee Jin ^a  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Belly board; preoperative radiotherapy; rectal cancer; small bowel

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CALCULATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; RECTUM CANCER; SACROILIAC JOINT; SMALL INTESTINE; TREATMENT PLANNING; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBIC SYMPHYSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SACROILIAC JOINT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745391372     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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