Brachytherapy as part of the multidisciplinary treatment of childhood rhabdomyosarcomas of the orbit

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1463-1469

  Blank, Leo E C M ^a   Koedooder, Kees ^a   Van Der Grient, Hans N B ^a   Wolffs, Nicole A W ^a   Van De Kar, Marlou ^a   Merks, Johannes H M ^a   Pieters, Bradley R ^a   Saeed, Peerooz ^a   Baldeschi, Lelio ^a   Freling, Nicole J ^a   Koning, Caro C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Childhood cancer; Orbit; Rhabdomyosarcomas

Indexed keywords

BONE GROWTH; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHILDHOOD CANCERS; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; FACIAL ASYMMETRY; LOCAL RECURRENCE; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMAS; SIDE EFFECT; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR AREAS; TUMOR RESECTION;

CHEMOTHERAPY; MOLDS; ONCOLOGY; ORBITS; TUMORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE MALFORMATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CATHETER; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRY EYE; EMBRYONAL RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; EVISCERATION; EYE DISEASE; EYE TOXICITY; FACE DEFORMITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KERATOPATHY; MALE; OPTICOPATHY; ORBIT RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PTOSIS; RADIATION CATARACT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RETINOPATHY; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; STRABISMUS; SUBCAPSULAR CATARACT; CATARACT; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ENUCLEATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ORBIT TUMOR; REMISSION; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; BRACHYTHERAPY; CATARACT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REMISSION INDUCTION; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA, ALVEOLAR; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA, EMBRYONAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77955503052     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.06.015     Document Type: Article

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