Posttreatment surveillance after paraaortic radiotherapy for stage I seminoma: A systematic analysis

Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 227-232

  Claben, Johannes ^a   Souchon, Rainer ^a   Hehr, Thomas ^b   Hartmann, Michael ^c   Hartmann, Jörg T ^a   Bamberg, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MARIENHOSPITAL STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Follow up; Paraaortic radiotherapy; Relapse pattern; Seminoma; Stage I; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MALE; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA; AORTA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; META ANALYSIS; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; TESTIS TUMOR; TIME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AORTA; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 74049117091     PISSN: 01715216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00432-009-0653-x     Document Type: Article

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