Accuracy of breast cancer axillary lymph node treatment plans based on 2-dimensional imaging: What we should know before interpreting 2-dimensional treatment-planning era studies

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 387-395

  Saito, Anneyuko I ^a   Lightsey, Judith ^b   Li, Jonathan G ^b   Copeland III, Edward M ^c   Karasawa, Kumiko ^a   Vargas, Carlos E ^d   Mendenhall, Nancy P ^b  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Boca Radiation Oncology Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

2 dimensional; 3 dimensional; Axillary lymph node; Breast cancer; Coracoid process; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AXILLA; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMERUS HEAD; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69349105433     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: 1537453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/COC.0b013e3181917170     Document Type: Article

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