Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
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For irradiation of the internal mammary lymph nodes, together with irradiation of the breast, a number of more or less standardised techniques are used. Regarding some disadvantages of these techniques, a modified method is discussed, that uses an obliquely incident electron beam for the mammary lymph node irradiation. ⋯ A procedure to match this obliquely incident beam to the adjacent tangential photon beams, that irradiate the breast, is described and the resulting dose distribution is compared with a standard technique. Applications with this technique and its usefulness are discussed.