A new modification of combining vacuum therapy and brachytherapy in large subfascial soft-tissue sarcomas of the extremities

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 224-228

  Rudert, Maximilian ^a,b   Winkler, Cornelia ^c   Holzapfel, Boris Michael ^a,b   Rechl, Hans ^b   Kneschaurek, Peter ^c   Gradinger, Reiner ^b   Molls, Michael ^c   Röper, Barbara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Soft tissue sarcoma surgery; Vacuum therapy brachyvac therapy

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; NEUROPATHY; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEROMA; SKIN TOXICITY; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SURGICAL WOUND; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND COMPLICATION; ADJUVANT THERAPY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIMB; LIMB SALVAGE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77951624384     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-010-2046-0     Document Type: Article

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