Initial surgical experience evaluating early tolerance and toxicities in patients undergoing accelerated partial breast irradiation using the Contura® multi lumen balloon breast brachytherapy catheter

American Surgeon

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1042-1049

  Israel, Philip Z ^a   Robbins, Angela B ^a   Shroff, Paulomi ^a   Haile, Kenneth ^b   Pope, D Keith ^b  

^a Breast Center   (United States)

^b WellStar Kennestone Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CATHETER; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASTITIS; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRESCRIPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SEROMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATHETERIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70450263570     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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