Factors predicting an increased dose to the penile bulb in permanent seed prostate brachytherapy

Brachytherapy

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 125-129

  Taussky, Daniel ^a   Haider, Masoom ^a   McLean, Michael ^a   Yeung, Ivan ^a   Williams, Theresa ^a   Pearson, Shannon ^a   Lockwood, Gina ^a   Crook, Juanita ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Penile bulb dose; Prostate brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOBIOLOGY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; PENIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 8144226785     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2004.06.004     Document Type: Article

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