Salvage for cervical recurrences of head and neck cancer with dissection and interstitial high dose rate brachytherapy

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Pellizzon, Antonio Cassio Assis ^a   Salvajoli, João Victor ^a   Kowalski, Luiz Paulo ^a   Carvalho, Andre Lopes ^a  

^a A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECURRENCE; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34248382024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-1-27     Document Type: Article

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