Accelerated partial breast irradiation utilizing balloon brachytherapy techniques

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-165

  Strauss, Jonathan B ^a   Dickler, Adam ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Mary Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated partial breast irradiation; Brachytherapy; MammoSite

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; PALLADIUM 103;

BALLOON BRACHYTHERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONIC BRACHYTHERAPY; ESTHETICS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DERMATITIS; REVIEW; SKIN TOXICITY; TELANGIECTASIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOLUMETRY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 65449164337     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.12.014     Document Type: Review

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