Seed migration in prostate brachytherapy: A re-implant case report

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 76, Issue 912, 2003, Pages 913-915

  Di Muzio, N ^a   Longobardi, B ^a   Losa, A ^a   Mangili, P ^a   Nava, L D ^b   Rigatti, P ^a   Calandrino, R ^a   Villa, E ^a   Guazzoni, G ^b  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Department of Medical Physics ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALLADIUM 103; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; DRUG IMPLANT; DRUG SEED; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MIGRATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATECTOMY; RADIATION DOSE; RISK; SEED EMBOLISM; THORAX SCINTISCANNING; TUMOR BIOPSY; UROFLOWMETRY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 1642535539     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/14541259     Document Type: Article

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