Can Radiotherapy be Combined with Radiofrequency Ablation in the Management of Symptomatic Osteolytic Skeletal Metastasis?

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-66

  Di Staso, M ^a   Zugaro, L ^b   Gravina, G L ^a   Bonfili, P ^a   Marampon, F ^a   Di Nicola, L ^a   Conchiglia, A ^b   Franzese, P ^a   Gallucci, M ^b   Masciocchi, C ^b   Tombolini, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE METASTASIS; CANCER PAIN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INFECTION; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SKIN TOXICITY; THERMOCOAGULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

BONE NEOPLASMS; CATHETER ABLATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; OSTEOLYSIS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 78650417061     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2010.11.002     Document Type: Letter

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