Migration of prostate brachytherapy seeds to the vertebral venous plexus

Brachytherapy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 127-130

  Nakano, Masahiro ^a   Uno, Hiromi ^a   Gotoh, Takahiro ^a   Kubota, Yasuaki ^a   Ishihara, Satoshi ^a   Deguchi, Takashi ^a   Hayashi, Shinya ^a   Matsuo, Masayuki ^a   Tanaka, Osamu ^a   Hoshi, Hiroaki ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Prostate brachytherapy; Seed migration; Vertebral venous plexus

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; RENOGRAPHY; SACRUM; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646100105     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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