A Post-Mastectomy Radiation Therapy Dose Distribution Study
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A woman post mastectomy and radiation therapy with chest pain.
HISTORY This was the third UCLA hospital admission for this 66-year-old female. Twenty-seven years ago the patient had breast cancer and underwent a left radical mastectomy without chemotherapy, and/or totalbody bone scanning. She then had recurrence in the left supraclavicular fossa involving the lymph nodes and the brachial plexus. She was treated with telecobalt beam over a single anterior d...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Medical Physics, Clinical Engineering and Radiation Oncology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2168-5436,2168-5444
DOI: 10.4236/ijmpcero.2017.64041