1. THERMOGRAPHY AND VENOGRAPHY IN TUMORS OF THE MEDIASTINUM AND CHEST
- Author
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Van Roy Rl, Wirtanen Gw, Karen P. Doppke, and Matallana Rh
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Lung Neoplasms ,Lung ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Venography ,Mediastinum ,Mediastinal tumor ,Phlebography ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Mediastinal Neoplasms ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Thermography ,Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,In patient ,Radiology ,business - Abstract
Screening thermography in patients with lung or mediastinal tumor selects those patients with more extensive tumors involving the major veins of the upper thorax.The patients thus selected should have roentgenographic studies of these veins to effectively outline the required larger radiation treatment portals.
- Published
- 1973