Twenty-three patients with recurrent or persistent epidermoid carcinoma of the oral cavity, all of whom had failed primary antitumor therapy, were treated with interstitial irradiation and a radiosensitizer. Such primary therapy had included radical surgery, external radiation therapy, or a combinat
Treatment of recurrent head and neck cancerrs with afterloading interstitial 192 iridium implants
β Scribed by A.M.N. Syed; F.W. George III; A. Puthawala; A. Fleming
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 90 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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