Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy for Primary Soft Tissue Sarcoma of the Extremity: Preliminary Results

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 458-464

  Alektiar, Kaled M ^a   Hong, Linda ^a   Brennan, Murray F ^a   Della Biancia, Cesar ^a   Singer, Samuel ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Extremity; IMRT; Primary; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

NEUROLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGERY; TUMORS;

NEUROLYSIS; NONINFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS; PATIENTS; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA (STS);

ONCOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE RESECTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; JOINT STIFFNESS; LIMB TUMOR; MALE; NERVE SURGERY; NEUROLYSIS; NEUROPATHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATELLA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SARCOMA; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 34247886146     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.12.054     Document Type: Article

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