Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 94, Issue 1 , Pages 53-59 , January 2010

Stereotactic body radiotherapy for local boost irradiation in unfavourable locally recurrent gynaecological cancer

  • Matthias Guckenberger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Julius-Maximilians University, Wuerzburg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Wuerzburg, Josef-Schneider-St. 11, 97080 Wuerzburg, Germany.
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  • Johanna Bachmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Julius-Maximilians University, Wuerzburg, Germany
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  • Joern Wulf

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiooncology, Lindenhofspital, Bern, Switzerland
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  • Gerd Mueller

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Julius-Maximilians University, Wuerzburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Thomas Krieger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Julius-Maximilians University, Wuerzburg, Germany
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  • Kurt Baier

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Julius-Maximilians University, Wuerzburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Anne Richter

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Julius-Maximilians University, Wuerzburg, Germany
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  • Juergen Wilbert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Julius-Maximilians University, Wuerzburg, Germany
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  • Michael Flentje

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Julius-Maximilians University, Wuerzburg, Germany

Received 20 March 2009 ,Revised 20 November 2009 ,Accepted 17 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.12.004

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