Perioperative interstitial brachytherapy for recurrent keloid scars

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Rio, Emmanuel ^a   Bardet, Etienne ^a   Peuvrel, Patrick ^a   Pannier, Michel ^b   Dreno, Brigitte ^b  

^a site hospitalier nord   (France)

^b HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ESTHETIC SURGERY; EXCISION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KELOID; LETTER; PAIN; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENCE RISK; RELAPSE; SKIN DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KELOID; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 68249087578     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181a83b7e     Document Type: Letter

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