The addition of SPECT/CT lymphoscintigraphy to breast cancer radiation planning spares lymph nodes critical for arm drainage

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 971-977

  Cheville, Andrea L ^a   Brinkmann, Debra H ^a   Ward, Shelly B ^a   Durski, Jolanta ^a   Laack, Nadia N ^a   Yan, Elizabeth ^a   Schomberg, Paula J ^a   Garces, Yolanda I ^a   Suman, Vera J ^a   Petersen, Ivy A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICES; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIATION PLANNING; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; STANDARD DEVIATION; TREATMENT PLANS;

BODY FLUIDS; DISEASES; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; TISSUE;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK REDUCTION; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; ORGANS AT RISK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84875203085     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.08.025     Document Type: Article

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