Mediastinal lymph node position variability in non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with radical irradiation

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 150-154

  Schaake, Eva E ^a   Belderbos, José S A ^a   Buikhuisen, Wieneke A ^a   Rossi, Maddalena M G ^a   Burgers, Jacobus A ^a   Sonke, Jan Jakob ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cone Beam CT; Interfraction variability; Lung cancer; Margins; Mediastinal lymph nodes

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKER; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COHORT STUDIES; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND-GUIDED FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION; FEMALE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84871321092     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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