Interstitial Surgical Cavity Sizing Applicators for the Treatment of the Breast Lumpectomy Cavity with Intraoperative Radiation Therapy

Surgical cavity sizing applicators were developed for utilization prior to intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) of the breast lumpectomy cavity with the Zeiss INTRABEAM (Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Jena, Germany) device. The use of these applicators minimizes the number of sterilizations of the treatm...

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Autores principales: Goddard, Lee C, Brodin, N. Patrik, Basavatia, Amar, McEvoy, Maureen, Feldman, Sheldon, Fox, Jana, Mehta, Keyur J, Tomé, Wolfgang A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Medical Physics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6390889/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30838165
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3693
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Sumario:Surgical cavity sizing applicators were developed for utilization prior to intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) of the breast lumpectomy cavity with the Zeiss INTRABEAM (Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Jena, Germany) device. The use of these applicators minimizes the number of sterilizations of the treatment applicator, which is currently limited to 100 sterilizations per applicator. This maximizes the number of patients who can be treated with each applicator, resulting in cost savings for the treating institution.

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