Patients with malignant obstructive airway lesions often present with total or segmental atelectasis of lung. In spite of prompt initiation of palliative external radiation alone, some patients were unable to complete the planned course of radiation therapy. Since May 1983, 17 patients with maligna
Cerebral radiation necrosis following treatment of extracranial malignancies
β Scribed by J. Peter Glass; Te-Long Hwang; Milam E. Leavens; Herman I. Libshitz
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 743 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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