Treatment of facial cutaneous carcinoma with high-dose rate contact brachytherapy with customized molds

Brachytherapy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 221-227

  Maroñas, Maria ^a   Guinot, Jose Luis ^a   Arribas, Leoncio ^a   Carrascosa, Maria ^a   Tortajada, Maria Isabel ^a   Carmona, Ruth ^b   Estornell, Marian ^a   Muelas, Rodrigo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ONCOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contact brachytherapy; Cutaneous carcinomas; Facial carcinomas; High dose rate brachytherapy; Molds; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192; WAX;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SIZE; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; FACE CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955146806     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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