Management of radiation wounds

Radiotherapy forms an integral part in cancer treatment today. It is used alone or in combination with surgery and chemotherapy. Although radiotherapy is useful to effect tumour death, it also exerts a deleterious effect on surrounding normal tissues. These effects are either acute or can manifest m...

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Main Authors: Subramania Iyer, Deepak Balasubramanian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2012-05-01
Series:Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/0970-0358.101311