Accelerated partial breast irradiation using the strut-adjusted volume implant single-entry hybrid catheter in brachytherapy for breast cancer in the setting of breast augmentation

Brachytherapy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 178-183

  Bloom, Elizabeth S ^a   Kirsner, Steve ^a   Mason, Bryan E ^a   Nelson, Chris L ^a   Hunt, Kelly K ^a   Baumann, Donald P ^a   Gifford, Kent A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated partial breast irradiation; Brachytherapy; Breast augmentation; SAVI

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; IRIDIUM 192; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955164764     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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