Prediction of seed migration after transperineal interstitial prostate brachytherapy with I-125 free seeds

Brachytherapy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 52-56

  Sugawara, Akitomo ^a   Nakashima, Jun ^a   Shigematsu, Naoyuki ^a   Kunieda, Etsuo ^a   Kubo, Atsushi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; I 125; Migration; Prostate cancer; Seed

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOGRAPHY; DRUG IMPLANT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RENOGRAPHY; SEED MIGRATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; COHORT STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; JAPAN; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PUBIC BONE; ROC CURVE;

EID: 58149514140     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2008.10.003     Document Type: Article

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