Placement technique and the early complications of balloon breast brachytherapy: Magee-womens hospital experience

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 152-155

  Soran, Atilla ^a   Evrensel, Turkkan ^a,b   Beriwal, Sushil ^a   Mogus, Robert ^a   Keenan, Donald ^a   Kelley, Joseph L ^a   Balkan, Mujdat ^a   Harlak, Ali ^a   Bonaventura, Marguerite A ^a   Johnson, Ronald ^a   Falk, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Closed; Complications; MammoSite; Open; Technique

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SIZE; CATHETER REMOVAL; CATHETERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; SEROMA; SKIN TOXICITY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34147124470     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: 1537453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.coc.0000255573.02106.bc     Document Type: Article

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