Helical Tomotherapy(®) is a Safe and Feasible Technique for Total Scalp Irradiation

Angiosarcoma of the scalp is a rare aggressive tumor that affects elderly patients. Chemoradiation is the treatment of choice for multicentric and extensive disease. The shape of the scalp represents a dosimetric challenge in terms of achieving a homogeneous concave dose distribution with coverage o...

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Autores principales: Cuccia, Francesco, Figlia, Vanessa, Palmeri, Antonella, Verderame, Francesco, Lo Casto, Antonio, Mannino, Mariella, Ferrera, Giuseppe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5379234/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28435647
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2017.6942
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author Cuccia, Francesco
Figlia, Vanessa
Palmeri, Antonella
Verderame, Francesco
Lo Casto, Antonio
Mannino, Mariella
Ferrera, Giuseppe
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Figlia, Vanessa
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description Angiosarcoma of the scalp is a rare aggressive tumor that affects elderly patients. Chemoradiation is the treatment of choice for multicentric and extensive disease. The shape of the scalp represents a dosimetric challenge in terms of achieving a homogeneous concave dose distribution with coverage of the entire target volume and an acceptable organs-at-risk sparing. We report a case of an 81-year-old man with a multifocal angiosarcoma of the scalp treated with Helical TomoTherapy(®) (Accuray Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA) intensity modulated radiotherapy. This technique allows precise and daily verifiable coverage of the target keeping the dose to the organs at risk within the constraints.
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spelling pubmed-53792342017-04-21 Helical Tomotherapy(®) is a Safe and Feasible Technique for Total Scalp Irradiation Cuccia, Francesco Figlia, Vanessa Palmeri, Antonella Verderame, Francesco Lo Casto, Antonio Mannino, Mariella Ferrera, Giuseppe Rare Tumors Case Report Angiosarcoma of the scalp is a rare aggressive tumor that affects elderly patients. Chemoradiation is the treatment of choice for multicentric and extensive disease. The shape of the scalp represents a dosimetric challenge in terms of achieving a homogeneous concave dose distribution with coverage of the entire target volume and an acceptable organs-at-risk sparing. We report a case of an 81-year-old man with a multifocal angiosarcoma of the scalp treated with Helical TomoTherapy(®) (Accuray Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA) intensity modulated radiotherapy. This technique allows precise and daily verifiable coverage of the target keeping the dose to the organs at risk within the constraints. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2017-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5379234/ /pubmed/28435647 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2017.6942 Text en ©Copyright F. Cuccia et al., 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cuccia, Francesco
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Palmeri, Antonella
Verderame, Francesco
Lo Casto, Antonio
Mannino, Mariella
Ferrera, Giuseppe
Helical Tomotherapy(®) is a Safe and Feasible Technique for Total Scalp Irradiation
title Helical Tomotherapy(®) is a Safe and Feasible Technique for Total Scalp Irradiation
title_full Helical Tomotherapy(®) is a Safe and Feasible Technique for Total Scalp Irradiation
title_fullStr Helical Tomotherapy(®) is a Safe and Feasible Technique for Total Scalp Irradiation
title_full_unstemmed Helical Tomotherapy(®) is a Safe and Feasible Technique for Total Scalp Irradiation
title_short Helical Tomotherapy(®) is a Safe and Feasible Technique for Total Scalp Irradiation
title_sort helical tomotherapy(®) is a safe and feasible technique for total scalp irradiation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5379234/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28435647
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2017.6942
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