Can the radiation dose to CT-enlarged but FDG-PET-negative inguinal lymph nodes in anal cancer be reduced?;Ist eine Reduktion der Bestrahlungsdosis auf im CT Vergrößerte, aber PET-negative Inguinale Lymphknoten beim Analkarzinom Möglich?

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 254-259

  Mai, Sabine Kathrin ^a,c   Welzel, Grit ^a   Hermann, Brigitte ^a   Wenz, Frederik ^a   Haberkorn, Uwe ^b   Dinter, Dietmar Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Universitätsklinik für Strahlentherapie und Radioonkologie Mannheim   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anal cancer; Inguinal lymph nodes; PET; Radiation; Radiation treatment planning CT

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; BLOOD POOL SCINTISCANNING; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; SAFETY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANUS NEOPLASMS; BODY BURDEN; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GROIN; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65249177073     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-009-1944-5     Document Type: Article

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