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The impact of continuous positive airway pressure on radiation dose to heart and lung during left-sided postmastectomy radiotherapy when deep inspiration breath hold technique is not applicable: a case report

Deep inspiration breathing hold (DIBH) compared to free-breathing (FB) during radiotherapy (RT) has significantly decreased radiation dose to heart and has been one of the techniques adopted for patients with breast cancer. However, patients who are unable to make suitable deep inspiration breath ma...

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Autores principales: Kil, Whoon Jong, Pham, Tabitha, Hossain, Sabbir, Casaigne, Juan, Jones, Kellie, Khalil, Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Radiation Oncology 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5903364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29506325
http://dx.doi.org/10.3857/roj.2018.00017