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Exceptionally high incidence of symptomatic grade 2–5 radiation pneumonitis after stereotactic radiation therapy for lung tumors

BACKGROUND: To determine the usefulness of dose volume histogram (DVH) factors for predicting the occurrence of radiation pneumonitis (RP) after application of stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT) for lung tumors, DVH factors were measured before irradiation. METHODS: From May 2004 to April 2006, 25...

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Autores principales: Yamashita, Hideomi, Nakagawa, Keiichi, Nakamura, Naoki, Koyanagi, Hiroki, Tago, Masao, Igaki, Hiroshi, Shiraishi, Kenshiro, Sasano, Nakashi, Ohtomo, Kuni
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1894806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17553175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-2-21