CyberKnife in the Treatment of Prostate Cancer: A Revolutionary System

European Urology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-42

  Morgia, Giuseppe ^a   De Renzis, Costantino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CYBERKNIFE; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOSURGERY; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

BRACHYTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 67349171864     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2009.02.020     Document Type: Editorial

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