Interstitial brachytherapy for childhood soft tissue sarcoma

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 649-655

  Laskar, Siddhartha ^a   Bahl, Gaurav ^a   Muckaden, Mary Ann ^a   Puri, Ajay ^a   Agarwal, Manish G ^a   Patil, Nikhilesh ^a   Shrivastava, Shyam K ^a   Dinshaw, Ketayun A ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Interstitial brachytherapy; Pediatric; Radiotherapy; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SIZE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADJUVANT THERAPY; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35148894993     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21118     Document Type: Article

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