Potential applicability of balloon cathe
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Timothy M. Pawlik; Allison Perry; Eric A. Strom; Gildy V. Babiera; Thomas A. Buc
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## 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