Overcoming pubic arch interference with free-hand needle placement in men undergoing prostate brachytherapy

Brachytherapy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-78

  Gibbons, Erin P ^a   Smith, Ryan P ^a   Beriwal, Sushil ^a   Krishna, Komanduri ^a   Benoit, Ronald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Prostate cancer; Pubic arch interference

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; PALLADIUM 103; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RADIOISOTOPE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; DRUG IMPLANT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBIC BONE; RADIATION DOSE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PUBIC BONE;

EID: 58149526660     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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