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Implantation of a biodegradable rectum balloon implant: Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls

INTRODUCTION: A rectum balloon implant (RBI) is a new device to spare rectal structures during prostate cancer radiotherapy. The theoretical advantages of a RBI are to reduce the high radiation dose to the anterior rectum wall, the possibility of a post-implant correction, and their predetermined sh...

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Autores principales: Vanneste, Ben G. L., Beek, Kees van De, Lutgens, Ludy, Lambin, Philippe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Urologia 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5734065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28338306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2016.0494