Radiation exposure to operating room personnel during transperineal interstitial permanent prostate brachytherapy

Brachytherapy

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 98-102

  Schwartz, David J ^a   Davis, Brian J ^a   Vetter, Richard J ^a   Pisansky, Thomas M ^a   Herman, Michael G ^a   Wilson, Torrence M ^b   LaJoie, Wayne N ^a   Oberg, Ann L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluoroscopy; Prostate brachytherapy; Radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; PALLADIUM 103;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; OPERATION DURATION; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 0043062934     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1538-4721(03)00097-7     Document Type: Article

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