HDR brachytherapy: An option for preventing nonmalignant obstruction in patients after lung transplantation

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 188, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1085-1090

  Meyer, A ^a   Warszawski Baumann, A ^a,b   Baumann, R ^a,b   Karstens, J H ^a   Christiansen, H ^a   Gottlieb, J ^a   Welte, T ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Gemeinschaftspraxis for Radiation Oncology and Radiotherapy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benign bronchial obstruction; Complications; High dose rate brachytherapy; Hyperplastic tissue; Lung transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HIGH DOSE BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RADIATION DOSE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; STENT; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DILATATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETREATMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DILATATION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECURRENCE; RETREATMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872867825     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-012-0215-z     Document Type: Article

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