Risk factors for enlargement of cardiac silhouette on chest radiography after radiotherapy for esophageal cancer

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 431-437

  Sasamoto, Ryuta ^a   Tsuchida, Emiko ^a   Sugita, Tadashi ^b   Matsumoto, Yasuo ^b   Abe, Eisuke ^a   Sasai, Keisuke ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enlargement of cardiac silhouette; Esophageal cancer; Radiation induced heart disease; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIOMEGALY; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORM PERCEPTION; GAMMA RAYS; HEMIBODY IRRADIATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748938529     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-006-0050-1     Document Type: Article

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