Head and neck region consolidation radiotherapy and prophylactic cranial irradiation with hippocampal avoidance delivered with helical tomotherapy after induction chemotherapy for non-sinonasal neuroendocrine carcinoma of the upper airways

BACKGROUND: Non-sinonasal neuroendocrine carcinomas (NSNECs) of the head and neck are considered an unfrequent clinico-pathological entity. Combined modality treatment represents an established therapeutic option for undifferentiated forms where distant metastasis is a common pattern of failure. MET...

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Autores principales: Franco, Pierfrancesco, Numico, Gianmauro, Migliaccio, Fernanda, Catuzzo, Paola, Cante, Domenico, Ceroni, Paola, Sciacero, Piera, Carassai, Pierpaolo, Canzi, Paolo, La Porta, Maria Rosa, Girelli, Giuseppe, Borca, Valeria Casanova, Pasquino, Massimo, Tofani, Santi, Ozzello, Franca, Ricardi, Umberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22336394
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-7-21

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