Infections after fiducial marker implantation for prostate radiotherapy: are we underestimating the risks?

BACKGROUND: The use of gold fiducial markers (FM) for prostate image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) is standard practice. Published literature suggests low rates of serious infection following this procedure of 0-1.3%, but this may be an underestimate. We aim to report on the infection incidence and sev...

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Autores principales: Loh, Jasmin, Baker, Katie, Sridharan, Swetha, Greer, Peter, Wratten, Chris, Capp, Anne, Gallagher, Sarah, Martin, Jarad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4333155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25890179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-015-0347-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4333155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25890179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-015-0347-2

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