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Celiac plexus radiosurgery – an introduction to the method and a practical manual

Marcin Miszczyk
1, 2
,
Małgorzata Malec-Milewska
3
,
Agata Suleja
4
,
Łukasz Dolla
5
,
Jerzy Wydmański
6
,
Magdalena Kocot-Kępska
7
,
Magda Sajdak
4, 8
,
Maria Stec
4, 8
,
Wojciech Leppert
9, 10
,
Yaacov Richard Lawrence
11

  1. Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  2. Collegium Medicum, Faculty of Medicine, WSB University, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland
  3. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland
  4. Third Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy Department, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland
  5. Radiotherapy Planning Department; and Department of Medical Physics, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland
  6. Radiotherapy Department, Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Poland
  7. Department of Pain Research and Treatment, Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
  8. Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  9. Department of Palliative Medicine, Collegium Medicum, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland
  10. University Clinical Hospital in Poznań, Poznań, Poland
  11. Institute of Oncology, Sheba Medical Centre, Ramat Gan, Israel
Contemp Oncol (Pozn) 2024; 28 (3): 242–244
Online publish date: 2024/10/15
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