Coupling treatment planning with navigation system: A new technological approach in treatment of head and neck tumors by electrochemotherapy

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 14, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Groselj, Ales ^a   Kos, Bor ^b   Cemazar, Maja ^c   Urbancic, Jure ^a   Kragelj, Grega ^a   Bosnjak, Masa ^c   Veberic, Biserka ^a   Strojan, Primoz ^c   Miklavcic, Damijan ^b   Sersa, Gregor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; BIOPSY; BODY FLUIDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; NEEDLES; PATHOLOGY; TUMORS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; CUTANEOUS SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMATA; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSIES; HEAD-AND-NECK TUMOR; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

BLEOMYCIN;

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTRODE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; NAVIGATION SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAROTID GLAND; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR NECROSIS; VERY ELDERLY; DEVICES; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; NEEDLE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTRODES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEEDLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84945250789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-14-S3-S2     Document Type: Article

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