Pulmonary toxicity following IMRT after extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 96-99

  Kristensen, Claus Andrup ^a   Nøttrup, Trine Juhler ^a   Berthelsen, Anne Kiil ^a   Kjær Kristoffersen, Flemming ^a   Ravn, Jesper ^a   Sørensen, Jens Benn ^a   Engelholm, Svend Aage ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dose constraints; Extrapleural pneumonectomy; IMRT; Mesothelioma; Pulmonary toxicity

Indexed keywords

PLATINUM DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ESOPHAGITIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; PLEURA; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONECTOMY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PNEUMONITIS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66949173615     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.03.011     Document Type: Article

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