Brachial plexus dose tolerance in head and neck cancer patients treated with sequential intensity modulated radiation therapy

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Thomas, Tarita O ^a   Refaat, Tamer ^a,b,c   Choi, Mehee ^a   Bacchus, Ian ^a   Sachdev, Sean ^a   Rademaker, Alfred W ^a   Sathiaseelan, Vythialingam ^a   Karagianis, Achilles ^a   Mittal, Bharat B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine   (United States)

^c ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Brachial plexus; Radiation; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION INDUCED BRACHIAL PLEXOPATHY; RADIATION INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANS AT RISK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANS AT RISK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84931269815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13014-015-0409-5     Document Type: Article

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