Pacemaker and radiotherapy in breast cancer: is targeted intraoperative radiotherapy the answer in this setting?

We present the case of an 83 year old woman with a cardiac pacemaker located close in distance to a subsequently diagnosed invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast. Short range intraoperative radiotherapy was given following wide local excision and sentinel node biopsy. The challenges of using i...

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Autores principales: Keshtgar, Mohammed RS, Eaton, David J, Reynolds, Claire, Pigott, Katharine, Davidson, Tim, Gauter-Fleckenstein, Benjamin, Wenz, Frederik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22852824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-7-128
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author Keshtgar, Mohammed RS
Eaton, David J
Reynolds, Claire
Pigott, Katharine
Davidson, Tim
Gauter-Fleckenstein, Benjamin
Wenz, Frederik
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description We present the case of an 83 year old woman with a cardiac pacemaker located close in distance to a subsequently diagnosed invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast. Short range intraoperative radiotherapy was given following wide local excision and sentinel node biopsy. The challenges of using ionising radiation with pacemakers is also discussed.
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spelling pubmed-34840772012-10-31 Pacemaker and radiotherapy in breast cancer: is targeted intraoperative radiotherapy the answer in this setting? Keshtgar, Mohammed RS Eaton, David J Reynolds, Claire Pigott, Katharine Davidson, Tim Gauter-Fleckenstein, Benjamin Wenz, Frederik Radiat Oncol Case Report We present the case of an 83 year old woman with a cardiac pacemaker located close in distance to a subsequently diagnosed invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast. Short range intraoperative radiotherapy was given following wide local excision and sentinel node biopsy. The challenges of using ionising radiation with pacemakers is also discussed. BioMed Central 2012-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3484077/ /pubmed/22852824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-7-128 Text en Copyright ©2012 Keshtgar et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Keshtgar, Mohammed RS
Eaton, David J
Reynolds, Claire
Pigott, Katharine
Davidson, Tim
Gauter-Fleckenstein, Benjamin
Wenz, Frederik
Pacemaker and radiotherapy in breast cancer: is targeted intraoperative radiotherapy the answer in this setting?
title Pacemaker and radiotherapy in breast cancer: is targeted intraoperative radiotherapy the answer in this setting?
title_full Pacemaker and radiotherapy in breast cancer: is targeted intraoperative radiotherapy the answer in this setting?
title_fullStr Pacemaker and radiotherapy in breast cancer: is targeted intraoperative radiotherapy the answer in this setting?
title_full_unstemmed Pacemaker and radiotherapy in breast cancer: is targeted intraoperative radiotherapy the answer in this setting?
title_short Pacemaker and radiotherapy in breast cancer: is targeted intraoperative radiotherapy the answer in this setting?
title_sort pacemaker and radiotherapy in breast cancer: is targeted intraoperative radiotherapy the answer in this setting?
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22852824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-7-128
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