Contouring inguinal and femoral nodes; how much margin is needed around the vessels?

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 274-278

  Kim, Carolyn H ^a   Olson, Adam C ^b   Kim, Hayeon ^a   Beriwal, Sushil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADDUCTOR LONGUS MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUME; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMORAL LYMPH VESSEL; HUMAN; ILIOPSOAS MUSCLE; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; LYMPH VESSEL; PECTINEUS MUSCLE; PELVIS CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 84866497501     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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