Revisiting unnecessary larynx irradiation with whole-neck IMRT

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-32

  Galloway, Thomas J ^a   Amdur, Robert J ^a   Liu, Chihray ^a   Yeung, Anamaria R ^a   Mendenhall, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNX INJURY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION INJURY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 79955945750     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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