Correlation between prostate brachytherapy-related urethral stricture and peri-apical urethral dosimetry: A matched case-control study

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 187-191

  Earley, James J ^a   Abdelbaky, Ather M ^a   Cunningham, Melanie J ^a   Chadwick, Eliot ^a   Langley, Stephen E M ^a   Laing, Robert W ^a  

^a ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Dosimetry; Prostate; Urethral stricture

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URETHRA STRICTURE;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; URETHRAL STRICTURE;

EID: 84865729952     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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