Should the organs at risk be contoured in vaginal cuff brachytherapy?

Brachytherapy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 313-317

  Holloway, Caroline L ^a   Macklin, Eric A ^b,c   Cormack, Robert A ^a   Viswanathan, Akila N ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

HDR brachytherapy; Vaginal vault

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETRY; ORGAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOID; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; URETHRAL CATHETERIZATION; VAGINA; VAGINAL VAULT BRACHYTHERAPY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COLON, SIGMOID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINA;

EID: 79958833215     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: 18731449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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