Perioperative high-dose rate brachytherapy using a bendy applicator (Flab): Treatment results of 74 patients

Anticancer Research

Volumn 28, Issue 6 B, 2008, Pages 3885-3890

  Bölling, Tobias ^a   Schüller, Patrick ^a   Distelmaier, Bernd ^a   Schuck, Andreas ^a   Ernst, Iris ^a   Gosheger, Georg ^a   Winkelmann, Winfried ^a   Dirksen, Uta ^a   Jürgens, Heribert ^a   Kronholz, Hans Lars ^a   Willich, Normann ^a   Könemann, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bendy applicator; Flab; HDR brachytherapy; Perioperative; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWING SARCOMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149143270     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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