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Stereotactic versus conventional radiotherapy for pain reduction and quality of life in spinal metastases: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Painful spinal metastases have been treated with conventional radiotherapy for decades, but one-third of the patients have insufficient pain relief after treatment and one-fifth need retreatment. Stereotactic radiotherapy is a method to increase the dose in the spinal metastases with a p...

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Autores principales: Braam, Pètra, Lambin, Philippe, Bussink, Johan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4735957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26829933
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1178-7