Severe late complications in patients with uterine cancer treated with postoperative radiotherapy

Anticancer Research

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3527-3533

  Kasuya, Goro ^a   Ogawa, Kazuhiko ^a   Iraha, Shiro ^b   Nagai, Yutaka ^a   Shiraishi, Masayuki ^a   Hirakawa, Makoto ^a   Samura, Hironori ^a   Toita, Takafumi ^a   Kakinohana, Yasumasa ^a   Kudaka, Wataru ^a   Inamine, Morihiko ^a   Ariga, Takuro ^a   Nishimaki, Tadashi ^a   Aoki, Yoichi ^a   Murayama, Sadayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b Department of Radiology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enterocolitis; Gynecological malignancies; Leg edema; Postoperative radiotherapy; Radiation therapy; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPLICATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENTEROCOLITIS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LEG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDEMA; ENTEROCOLITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054732953     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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