Total Body Irradiation (TBI) using Helical Tomotherapy in children and young adults undergoing stem cell transplantation

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gruen, Arne ^a   Ebell, Wolfram ^a   Wlodarczyk, Waldemar ^a   Neumann, Oliver ^a   Kuehl, Joern Sven ^a   Stromberger, Carmen ^a   Budach, Volker ^a   Marnitz, Simone ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALOPECIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DIARRHEA; DYSGEUSIA; ERYTHEMA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NECK PAIN; PAROTITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION DOSE; SCHOOL CHILD; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOTHERAPY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; XEROSTOMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876148903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-8-92     Document Type: Article

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