Acute and chronic results of adjuvant radiotherapy after mastectomy and transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM) flap reconstruction for breast cancer

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 389-394

  Halyard, Michele Y ^a   McCombs, Kathy E ^b   Wong, William W ^a   Buchel, Edward W ^a   Pockaj, Barbara A ^a   Vora, Sujay A ^a   Gray, Richard J ^a   Schild, Steven E ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DESQUAMATION; ERYTHEMA; ESTHETICS; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 3843103994     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.COC.0000071946.11078.7E     Document Type: Review

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