Catch me if you can - The use of image guidance in the radiotherapy of an unusual case of esophageal cancer

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 185, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 469-473

  Jensen, Alexandra D ^a,b   Grehn, Christian ^a   Nikoghosyan, Anna ^a   Thieke, Christian ^b   Krempien, Robert ^a   Huber, Peter E ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Münter, Marc W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Esophageal carcinoma; Image guidance; IMRT

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PRESCRIPTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ARTIFACTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69549110889     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-009-1935-6     Document Type: Article

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