Multicatheter hybrid breast brachytherapy: A potential alternative for patients with inadequate skin distance

Brachytherapy

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 301-304

  Beriwal, Sushil ^a   Coon, Devin ^a   Kim, Hayeon ^a   Haley, Marsha ^a   Patel, Rakesh ^b   Das, Rupak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

APBI; ClearPath; MammoSite

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HEART; HUMAN; LUNG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RIB; SKIN;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 53349165620     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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