Extra-corporeal liver BNCT for the treatment of diffuse metastases: What was learned and what is still to be learned

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 67, Issue 7-8 SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Zonta, A ^a   Pinelli, T ^a,d   Prati, U ^b   Roveda, L ^b   Ferrari, C ^a   Clerici, A M ^a   Zonta, C ^a   Mazzini, G ^c   Dionigi, P ^a   Altieri, S ^a,d   Bortolussi, S ^a,d   Bruschi, P ^a   Fossati, F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Oncologic Surgery   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boron neutron capture therapy; BPA; Liver BNCT; Recurrences

Indexed keywords

AFTER-TREATMENT; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; BPA; CLINICAL CONDITIONS; CLINICAL HISTORY; COLON CARCINOMA; FUNCTIONAL POINTS; HEPATIC TISSUE; LONG TERM; NEUTRON FIELDS; POSTIRRADIATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCES; TUMOR MASS;

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; LIVER; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; NEUTRONS; PATHOLOGY;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

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ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLON CARCINOMA; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; ISOLATED LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; BORON COMPOUNDS; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CHEMOTHERAPY, CANCER, REGIONAL PERFUSION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PHENYLALANINE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67649394163     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.03.087     Document Type: Article

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