External beam radiotherapy combined with intraluminal brachytherapy in esophageal carcinoma

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 303-308

  Muijs, Christina T ^a   Beukema, Jannet C ^a   Mul, Veronique E ^a   Plukker, John Th ^a   Sijtsema, Nanna M ^a   Langendijk, Johannes A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Intraluminal brachytherapy; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS HEMORRHAGE; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80054119923     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.07.021     Document Type: Article

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