The benefit of small bowel and pelvic bone sparing in excluding common iliac lymph node region from conventional radiation fields in patients with uterine cervical cancer: A dosimetric study

Journal of Radiation Research

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 715-721

  Oike, Takahiro ^a   Ohno, Tatsuya ^a   Wakatsuki, Masaru ^a   Noda, Shin ei ^a   Saitoh, Jun ichi ^a   Mizukami, Tatsuji ^a   Yoshimoto, Yuya ^a   Okonogi, Noriyuki ^a   Katoh, Hiroyuki ^a   Shibuya, Kei ^a   Suzuki, Yoshiyuki ^a   Ishikawa, Hitoshi ^a   Ebara, Takeshi ^a   Takahashi, Takeo ^a   Nakano, Takashi ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Common iliac lymph node region; Pelvic insufficiency fracture; Radiotherapy; Small bowel; Uterine cervical cancer

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; FRACTURE;

CERVICAL CANCERS; COMMON ILIAC LYMPH NODE REGION; DOSE REDUCTION; EXTERNAL-BEAM RADIOTHERAPIES; LYMPH NODE REGION; PELVIC BONE; PELVIC INSUFFICIENCY FRACTURE; RADIATION FIELD; SMALL BOWEL; UTERINE CERVICAL CANCER;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 78649786183     PISSN: 04493060     EISSN: 13499157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1269/jrr.10046     Document Type: Article

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