Proton Beam Therapy for a Patient with a Giant Thymic Carcinoid Tumor and Severe Superior Vena Cava Syndrome

Surgical resection is the first choice for treatment of a thymic carcinoid tumor and radiotherapy is often performed as adjuvant therapy. Here, we report a case of an unresectable and chemoresistant thymic carcinoid tumor that was treated successfully using standalone proton beam therapy (PBT). The...

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Main Authors: Sugawara, Kaori, Mizumoto, Masashi, Numajiri, Haruko, Ohno, Toshiki, Ohnishi, Kayoko, Ishikawa, Hitoshi, Okumura, Toshiyuki, Sakurai, Hideyuki
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014
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Case Report
Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4083663/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25002943
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2014.5177
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