Postoperative irradiation of left-sided breast cancer patients and cardiac toxicity: Does deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) technique protect the heart?

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 184, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 354-358

  Stranzl, Heidi ^a   Zurl, Brigitte ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiac toxicity; Deep inspiration breath hold technique; Left sided breast carcinoma; Postoperative Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INHALATION; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 56549095077     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-008-1852-0     Document Type: Article

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