Radiation dose to the brachial plexus in head-and-neck intensity-modulated radiation therapy and its relationship to tumor and nodal stage

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 158-164

  Truong, Minh Tam ^a   Romesser, Paul B ^a   Qureshi, Muhammad M ^a   Kovalchuk, Nataliya ^a   Orlina, Lawrence ^a   Willins, John ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

brachial plexus; dose volume histogram; Head and neck cancer; intensity modulated radiation therapy; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; DOSE PARAMETERS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; HYPOPHARYNX; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; MEAN DOSE; OROPHARYNX; TOTAL DOSE; TUMOR COVERAGE;

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORGANS AT RISK; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84865690013     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.10.079     Document Type: Article

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