New ambulatory implant technique of high-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy for prostate cancer

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 595-599

  Yoshida, Ken ^a   Nose, Takayuki ^b   Shiomi, Hiroya ^c   Yoshioka, Yasuo ^c   Fujita, Yuka ^a   Kuroda, Satoru ^d   Yoshida, Mineo ^d   Takahashi, Tohru ^a   Kitamura, Masaya ^a   Akai, Hideyuki ^a   Oka, Toshitsugu ^a   Hosoki, Takuya ^a  

^a OSAKA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b CANCER INSTITUTE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Sanda Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ambulatory implant technique; High dose rate interstitial brachytherapy; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; AMBULATORY CARE; BLOOD; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; WALKING;

EID: 34547501599     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: 18625274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-007-0058-1     Document Type: Article

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