A simple strategy to decrease fatal carotid blowout syndrome after stereotactic body reirradiaton for recurrent head and neck cancers

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Yazici, Gozde ^a   Sanli, Tolga Yusuf ^a   Cengiz, Mustafa ^a   Yuce, Deniz ^a   Gultekin, Melis ^a   Hurmuz, Pervin ^a   Yildiz, Ferah ^a   Zorlu, Faruk ^a   Akyol, Fadil ^a   Gurkaynak, Murat ^a   Ozyigit, Gokhan ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

CyberKnife; Fractionation; Head and neck cancer; Reirradiation; Stereotactic radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID BLOWOUT SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT CANCER; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOSURGERY; SYNDROME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOSURGERY; SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885545630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-8-242     Document Type: Article

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