Radiation-induced morphological changes in the vagina

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 188, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1010-1019

  Kirchheiner, K ^a   Fidarova, E ^a   Nout, R A ^b   Schmid, M P ^a   Sturdza, A ^a   Wiebe, E ^c   Kranz, A ^a   Polterauer, S ^a   Potter R ^a   Dorr W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Morbidity; Radiotherapy; Vagina; Vaginoscopy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOSCOPY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLOR; PERFORATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION INJURY; SCORING SYSTEM; TELANGIECTASIA; TISSUE ADHESION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINA PAIN; VAGINAL DRYNESS; VAGINAL ULCER; VAGINITIS; VAGINOSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLPOSCOPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION INJURIES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINA;

EID: 84867940120     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-012-0222-0     Document Type: Article

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