Variability in bladder volumes of full bladders in definitive radiotherapy for cases of localized prostate cancer

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 186, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 637-642

  Nakamura, Naoki ^a   Shikama, Naoto ^a   Takahashi, Osamu ^a   Ito, Makiko ^b   Hashimoto, Masatoshi ^b   Uematsu, Masahiro ^b   Hama, Yukihiro ^b   Sekiguchi, Kenji ^a   Nakagawa, Keiichi ^c  

^a ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b 2 24 18 Higashikoiwa   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bladder volume; Full bladder; IMRT; MVCT; Prostate cancer; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; CYSTITIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SPIRAL CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; URINARY BLADDER; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 78650176838     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-010-2105-6     Document Type: Article

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