Seed loss through the urinary tract after prostate brachytherapy: Examining the role of cystoscopy and urine straining post implant

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2695-2698

  Stutz, Michael ^a   Petrikas, James ^a   Raslowsky, Michael ^a   Lee, Plato ^a   Gurel, Michelle ^a   Moran, Brian ^a  

^a Chicago Prostate Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; UROLOGY;

LOADING TECHNIQUE; LOW RATES; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; TIME-PERIODS; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF THE PROSTATES; ULTRASOUND GUIDANCE; URINARY TRACT;

STRAIN;

IODINE 125; PALLADIUM 103;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CYSTOSCOPY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; ULTRASOUND; URINE CATHETER;

EID: 0142120873     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1604491     Document Type: Article

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