Individual applicator for brachytherapy for various sites of superficial malignant lesions

Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-49

  Kowalik, Łukasz ^a   Łyczek, Jarosław ^a   Sawicki, Marcin ^a   Kazalski, Damian ^a  

^a Podkarpacki Oncology Centre   (Poland)

Author keywords

HDR brachytherapy; Individual applicators; Superficial lesions

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIATION APPLICATOR; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUPERFICIAL CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84876853451     PISSN: 1689832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/jcb.2013.34340     Document Type: Article

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