Radiotherapy Can Cause Haemostasis in Bleeding Skin Malignancies

Radiotherapy (RT) can cause haemostasis in select cases of malignant bleeding. We present two cases where RT was used to prevent fatal exsanguination from bleeding skin malignancies. Treatment was with radical intent in one case and palliative intent in the other. The dose used in both cases was 20...

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Autores principales: Jang, Helena Sung-In, Spillane, Andrew, Boyle, Frances, Fogarty, Gerald
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23346113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/168681
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author Jang, Helena Sung-In
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description Radiotherapy (RT) can cause haemostasis in select cases of malignant bleeding. We present two cases where RT was used to prevent fatal exsanguination from bleeding skin malignancies. Treatment was with radical intent in one case and palliative intent in the other. The dose used in both cases was 20 Gray (Gy) in 5 fractions. To our knowledge, this is the first report of radiation-induced haemostasis in bleeding skin malignancies.
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spelling pubmed-35464822013-01-23 Radiotherapy Can Cause Haemostasis in Bleeding Skin Malignancies Jang, Helena Sung-In Spillane, Andrew Boyle, Frances Fogarty, Gerald Case Rep Med Case Report Radiotherapy (RT) can cause haemostasis in select cases of malignant bleeding. We present two cases where RT was used to prevent fatal exsanguination from bleeding skin malignancies. Treatment was with radical intent in one case and palliative intent in the other. The dose used in both cases was 20 Gray (Gy) in 5 fractions. To our knowledge, this is the first report of radiation-induced haemostasis in bleeding skin malignancies. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3546482/ /pubmed/23346113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/168681 Text en Copyright © 2012 Helena Sung-In Jang et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Radiotherapy Can Cause Haemostasis in Bleeding Skin Malignancies
title Radiotherapy Can Cause Haemostasis in Bleeding Skin Malignancies
title_full Radiotherapy Can Cause Haemostasis in Bleeding Skin Malignancies
title_fullStr Radiotherapy Can Cause Haemostasis in Bleeding Skin Malignancies
title_full_unstemmed Radiotherapy Can Cause Haemostasis in Bleeding Skin Malignancies
title_short Radiotherapy Can Cause Haemostasis in Bleeding Skin Malignancies
title_sort radiotherapy can cause haemostasis in bleeding skin malignancies
topic Case Report
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