Chest wall pain and rib fracture after stereotactic radiotherapy for peripheral non-small cell lung cancer

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1035-1037

  Voroney, Jon Paul J ^a,c   Hope, Andrew ^b   Dahele, Max R ^b   Purdy, Thomas ^b   Franks, Kevin N ^b   Pearson, Shannon ^b   Cho, John B C ^b   Sun, Alex ^b   Payne, David G ^b   Bissonnette, Jean Pierre ^b   Bezjak, Andrea ^b   Brade, Anthony M ^b  

^a TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Non small cell lung cancer; Rib fracture; Stereotactic body radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RIB FRACTURE; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX WALL;

EID: 68349104775     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181ae2962     Document Type: Article

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