Dose delivered to the lumbosacral plexus from high-dose-rate brachytherapy for cervical cancer

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 897-902

  Rash, Dominique ^a   Durbin Johnson, Blythe ^a   Lim, Jihoon ^a   Dieterich, Sonja ^a   Huddleston, Adam ^a   Yi, Sun ^b   Mayadev, Jyoti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Gynecologic brachytherapy; Lumbosacral plexus

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SACRUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS; ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84930345040     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IGC.0000000000000427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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