Pelvic bone complications following radiation therapy of gynecologic malignancies: Clinical evaluation of radiation-induced pelvic insufficiency fractures

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1100-1104

  Ikushima, Hitoshi ^a   Osaki, Kyousuke ^a   Furutani, Shunsuke ^a   Yamashita, Kyou ^a   Kishida, Yoshiomi ^a   Kudoh, Takaharu ^a   Nishitani, Hiromu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gynecologic malignancy; Insufficiency fractures; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACETABULUM; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BED REST; BONE DISEASE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC GIRDLE; PELVIS FRACTURE; PELVIS INSUFFICIENCY FRACTURE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION SHIELD; SACROILIAC JOINT; SACRUM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC BONES; PELVIC PAIN; RADIATION INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33751393653     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2006.06.038     Document Type: Article

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