The sigmoid colon and bladder shielding in whole pelvic irradiation at prostate cancer (forward planned IMRT from Institute of Oncology Ljubljana)

Daša Grabec; Borut Kragelj

doi:10.2478/v10019-009-0001-4

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The sigmoid colon and bladder shielding in whole pelvic irradiation at prostate cancer (forward planned IMRT from Institute of Oncology Ljubljana)

Radiology and Oncology

Volume 43 (2009): Issue 1 (March 2009)

By: Daša Grabec and Borut Kragelj

Open Access

|Mar 2009

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