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Effective heart-sparing whole lung irradiation using volumetric modulated arc therapy: a case report

BACKGROUND: Late cardiovascular disease-related adverse events are one of the most common causes of premature mortality among long-term survivors of childhood cancer. As it is difficult to reduce the heart dose with traditional anteroposterior–posteroanterior field whole lung irradiation for pulmona...

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Autores principales: Suzuki, Gen, Ogata, Toshiyuki, Aibe, Norihiro, Yamazaki, Hideya, Yagyu, Shigeki, Iehara, Tomoko, Hosoi, Hajime, Yamada, Kei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6717977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31474226
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-019-2209-2