Endobronchial brachytherapy in the treatment of malignant lung tumours

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 348-352

  Escobar Sacristan J A ^a   de Granda Orive, J I ^a   Gutierrez Jimenez T ^a   Delgado, J M ^a   Rodero Banos A ^a   Saez Valls, R ^a  

^a Defence Military Hospital   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Endobronchial high dose rate; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHOSPASM; BRONCHUS FISTULA; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; BRONCHUS TUMOR; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CATHETER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LETHALITY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; STRIDOR; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEORECORDING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHI; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 4544250718     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.04.00114902     Document Type: Article

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