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Breast Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 448-450

  Mohiuddin, Majid M ^a   Zhang, Bin ^a   Tkaczuk, Katherine ^a   Khakpour, Nazanin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PACLITAXEL; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ADULT; BODY MASS; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CALCIFICATION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESQUAMATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INCIDENCE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LETTER; MASTECTOMY; MORBID OBESITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADULT; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; OBESITY, MORBID; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956818994     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2010.00932.x     Document Type: Letter

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