Seed misplacement and stabilizing needles in transperineal permanent prostate implants

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-63

  Taschereau, Richard ^a   Pouliot, Jean ^a   Roy, Jean ^a   Tremblay, Daniel ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Misplacement; Prostate implants; Stabilization

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ERROR; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; FRICTION; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDLES; PERINEUM; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROTATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0034175741     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(00)00162-6     Document Type: Article

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