A prospective trial of real-time magnetic resonance-guided catheter placement in interstitial gynecologic brachytherapy

Brachytherapy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 240-247

  Viswanathan, Akila N ^a   Szymonifka, Jackie ^b   Tempany Afdhal, Clare M ^a   O'Farrell, Desmond A ^a   Cormack, Robert A ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gynecologic malignancies; Interstitial brachytherapy; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER SPASM; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOSARCOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; INTERVENTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RECURRENT CANCER; SARCOMA; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; URINARY FREQUENCY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA CANCER; VAGINA DISEASE; VULVA CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84876710882     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: 18731449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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