Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) in patients with carcinomas of the paranasal sinuses: Clinical benefit for complex shaped target volumes

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Combs, Stephanie E ^a,b   Konkel, Stephan ^a,b   Schulz Ertner, Daniela ^a,b   Münter, Marc W ^a,b   Debus, Jürgen ^a,b   Huber, Peter E ^a,b   Thilmann, Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PARANASAL SINUS; PARANASAL SINUS TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, ADENOID CYSTIC; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; PARANASAL SINUSES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34248334126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-1-23     Document Type: Article

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