Neurological adverseeffects after radiation therapyfor stage II seminoma

Case Reports in Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 444-448

  Lauritsen, Liv Ebbeskov ^a   Petersen, Peter Meidahl ^a   Daugaard, Gedske ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Myelopathy; Plexopathy; Radiation adverse effects; Radiation therapy; Testicular cancer

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LEG DISEASE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION FIELD; SEMINOMA; SYMPTOM; TESTIS CANCER; WEAKNESS;

EID: 84866841214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16626575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000341874     Document Type: Article

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