Central-airway necrosis after stereotactic body-radiation therapy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 366, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 2327-2329

  Corradetti, Michael N ^a   Haas, Andrew R ^a   Rengan, Ramesh ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; PEMETREXED;

ADULT; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION NECROSIS; RECURRENT CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; SMOKING HABIT; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 84862169679     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1203770     Document Type: Letter

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