Development of a standardized method for contouring the lumbosacral plexus: A preliminary dosimetric analysis of this organ at risk among 15 patients treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy for lower gastrointestinal cancers and the incidence of radiation-induced lumbosacral plexopathy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 376-382

  Yi, Sun K ^a   Mak, Walter ^b   Yang, Claus C ^c   Liu, Tianxiao ^c   Cui, Jing ^a   Chen, Allen M ^a   Purdy, James A ^a   Monjazeb, Arta M ^a   Do, Ly ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Cancer Care Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Contouring atlas; IMRT; Incidence; Lumbosacral plexus; Radiation induced lumbosacral plexopathy

Indexed keywords

CONTOURING ATLAS; IMRT; INCIDENCE; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; RADIATION-INDUCED;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN;

ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; NEUROANATOMY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED LUMBOSACRAL PLEXOPATHY; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIATIC NERVE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANATOMIC LANDMARKS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ANUS NEOPLASMS; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MITOMYCIN; ORGANS AT RISK; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84865659615     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.11.074     Document Type: Article

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