RF-power and temperature data analysis of 444 patients with primary cervical cancer: Deep hyperthermia using the Sigma-60 applicator is reproducible

International Journal of Hyperthermia

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 623-643

  Fatehi, Daryoush ^a,b   van der Zee, Jacoba ^a   de Bruijne, Maarten ^a   Franckena, Martine ^a   van Rhoon, Gerard C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

BSD 2000; Cervical cancer; Hyperthermia; Reproducibility; RF power; Sigma 60; Temperature; Thermal dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CISPLATIN;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PELVIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOMETRY; TIME; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA;

ADULT; AGED; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOMA; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 37549069718     PISSN: 02656736     EISSN: 14645157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02656730701827557     Document Type: Article

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