Vessel based delineation guidelines for the elective lymph node regions in breast cancer radiation therapy - PROCAB guidelines

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 11-16

  Verhoeven, Karolien ^a   Weltens, Caroline ^a   Remouchamps, Vincent ^b   Mahjoubi, Khalil ^b   Veldeman, Liv ^c   Lengele, Benoit ^d   Hortobagyi, Eszter ^a   Kirkove, Carine ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Clinique & Maternite Sainte Elisabeth Namer   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Delineation guidelines; Radiation therapy; Regional nodal irradiation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONSENSUS; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LYMPH NODE; PERIPHERAL VEIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STERNUM; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SURGEON; AXILLA; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAMMARY GLAND; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULARIZATION;

AXILLA; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONSENSUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84925139747     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.11.008     Document Type: Article

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