Feasibility of transrectal ultrasonography for assessment of cervical cancer

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 123-128

  Schmid, M P ^a   Potter R ^a   Brader, P ^a   Kratochwil, A ^a   Goldner, G ^a   Kirchheiner, K ^a   Sturdza, A ^a   Kirisits, C ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Image guided adaptive brachytherapy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Radiotherapy; Transrectal ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84874102280     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-012-0258-1     Document Type: Article

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