Stereotactic radiosurgery for unresectable adenocarcinoma of the pancreas: Initial experience at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore

Treating Tumors that Move with Respiration

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 241-246

  Hoffelt, Christopher ^a,b   Didolkar, Mukund ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Southwest Washington Medical Center   (United States)

^c SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

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EID: 84891403439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69886-9_24     Document Type: Chapter

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