Hypothyroidism after head-and-neck radiotherapy in children and adolescents: Preliminary results of the "registry for the Evaluation of Side Effects after Radiotherapy in Childhood and Adolescence" (RiSK)

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Bölling, Tobias ^a,b   Geisenheiser, Alina ^a   Pape, Hildegard ^c   Martini, Carmen ^d   Rübe, Christian ^e   Timmermann, Beate ^f   Fischedick, Karin ^g   Kortmann, Rolf Dieter ^h   Gerß, Joachim ^a,i   Koch, Raphael ^a,i   Willich, Normann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Paracelsus Clinic   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Childhood; Radiation; Thyroid function

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; CHILDHOOD; CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; CRANIOSPINAL IRRADIATION; CUMULATIVE INCIDENCE; DOSE-VOLUME EFFECTS; GERMANY; HAZARD RATIO; RADIATION-INDUCED; SIDE EFFECT; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID GLANDS; THYROID HORMONES;

BLOOD; DOSIMETRY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HAZARDS; HEAT RADIATION; HORMONES; IRRADIATION; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PESTICIDE EFFECTS; RADIOTHERAPY;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IRRADIATION; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCHOOL CHILD; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; GERMANY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; ORGANS AT RISK; PITUITARY GLAND; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REGISTRIES; RISK; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81855163400     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.10.037     Document Type: Article

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