Thirty-six cases of carcinoma of the cervix with positive pelvic or para-aortic nodesdiagnosed by lymph node scan, lymphangiogram, and/or biopsy have received radiation therapy to the para-aortic nodal area at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Megavoltage radiation delivering a tumor d
Elective irradiation of the para-aortic nodes in squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix
β Scribed by Gilbert H. Fletcher
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 272 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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