Are radiation therapy oncology group para-aortic contouring guidelines for pancreatic neoplasm applicable to other malignancies - Assessment of nodal distribution in gynecological malignancies

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-110

  Kabolizadeh, Peyman ^a   Fulay, Suyash ^a   Beriwal, Sushil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL STRUCTURES; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODS AND MATERIALS; MICROSCOPIC DISEASE; NODAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION THERAPY ONCOLOGY GROUPS; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; TARGET LOCALIZATION;

MUSCLE; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY BLOOD VESSEL; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PELVIS CANCER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANATOMIC LANDMARKS; AORTA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PSOAS MUSCLES; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL VEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 84881375049     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.05.034     Document Type: Article

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