Manually after-loaded 192Ir low-dose rate brachytherapy after subtotal excision and flap reconstruction of recurrent cervical lymphadenopathy from head and neck cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-42

  Nutting, Christopher ^a   Horlock, Nigel ^a   A'Hern, Roger ^a   Searle, Adam ^a   Michael Henk, J ^a   Rhys Evans, Peter ^a   Harrington, Kevin ^a  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Head and neck cancer; Lymphadenopathy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IRIDIUM 192; IRIDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRANCE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLEEDING; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN FISTULA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENT DISEASE; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746993105     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.06.012     Document Type: Article

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