The significance of a uniform definition of pathological lymph nodes in Hodgkin lymphoma: Impact of different thresholds for positive lymph nodes in CT imaging on staging and therapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 74-81

  Vorwerk, Hilke ^a   Obenauer, Silvia ^b   Schmidberger, Heinz ^c   Hess, Clemens F ^a   Weiss, Elisabeth ^a,d  

^a Department of Radiotherapy ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Hodgkin lymphoma; Lymph node size; Malignant lymphoma; Radiation therapy; Staging

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41949130709     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.10.039     Document Type: Article

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