## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Balloon catheter–based accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) is an alternative to whole‐breast external‐beam irradiation during breast‐conserving therapy (BCT) for breast carcinoma, but it is limited by the size of the segmental mastectomy cavity. There are scant
Partial Breast Irradiation after Breast-Conserving Surgery
✍ Scribed by Georg Sauer; Vratislav Strnad; Christian Kurzeder; Rolf Kreienberg; Rolf Sauer
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 263 KB
- Volume
- 181
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0179-7158
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