Change in Seroma Volume During Whole-Breast Radiation Therapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 89-93

  Sharma, Rajiv ^a   Spierer, Marnee ^a   Mutyala, Subhakar ^a   Thawani, Nitika ^a   Cohen, Hillel W ^a   Hong, Linda ^a   Garg, Madhur K ^a   Kalnicki, Shalom ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Radiation therapy; Seroma; Volume change

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY; BREAST RADIATION THERAPY; BREAST TISSUES; BREAST-CONSERVING THERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FRACTIONATION SCHEDULES; INVERSE CORRELATION; PEARSON CORRELATION; RADIATION THERAPY; SEROMA; TUMOR BED; VOLUME CHANGE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); RADIOTHERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL); TUMORS;

RADIATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SEROMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROMA; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 68649117004     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.10.037     Document Type: Article

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