Technique of Outpatient Placement of Intraprostatic Fiducial Markers Before External Beam Radiotherapy

Urology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 881-886

  Linden, Robert A ^a   Weiner, Perry R ^a   Gomella, Leonard G ^a   Dicker, Adam P ^a   Suh, David B ^a   Trabulsi, Edouard J ^a   Valicenti, Richard K ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; GOLD;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CYSTITIS; DERMATITIS; ENTERITIS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; GLEASON SCORE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; TECHNIQUE; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URINE RETENTION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

AMBULATORY CARE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 63149166710     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2008.10.071     Document Type: Article

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