Treatment of cutaneous metastases of Merkel cell carcinoma with surface-mold computer-optimized high-dose-rate brachytherapy

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 28, Issue 27, 2010, Pages

  Cotter, Shane E ^a   Devlin, Phillip M ^a   Sahni, Debjani ^a   Hansen, Jorgen L ^a   O'Farrell, Desmond A ^a   Ng, Andrea K ^a   Wang, Linda C ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IRIDIUM 192;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GRAFT FAILURE; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN METASTASIS; SKIN NODULE; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURFACE MOLD COMPUTER OPTIMIZED HIGH DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WIDE EXCISION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LEG; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKIN TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957950738     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2010.29.0635     Document Type: Article

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