Skin Elasticity as a Measure of Radiation Fibrosis: Is it Reproducible and Does it Correlate with Patient and Physician-reported Measures?

Current means of measuring RT-induced fibrosis are subjective. We evaluated the DermaLab suction cup system to measure objectively skin deflection as a surrogate for fibrosis. Sixty-nine patients with E-STS were treated with limb-sparing surgery and 50-66 Grays (Gy) of RT. Using a “scleroderma” Derm...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Nhu-Tram A., Roberge, David, Freeman, Carolyn R., Wong, Cindy, Hines, Jerod, Turcotte, Robert E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4527462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24000984
http://dx.doi.org/10.7785/tcrtexpress.2013.600257

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4527462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24000984
http://dx.doi.org/10.7785/tcrtexpress.2013.600257

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