Rectum-spacer related acute toxicity – endoscopy results of 403 prostate cancer patients after implantation of gel or balloon spacers

BACKGROUND: Rectal spacers are used to limit dose to the anterior rectal wall in high dose external beam radiation therapy of the prostate and have been shown to reduce radiation induced toxicity. Here we report the complication rate and toxicity of the implantation procedure in a large cohort of pa...

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Autores principales: Schörghofer, Andreas, Drerup, Martin, Kunit, Thomas, Lusuardi, Lukas, Holzinger, Josef, Karner, Josef, Groher, Michael, Zoubek, Christoph, Forstner, Rosemarie, Sedlmayer, Felix, Wolf, Frank
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6419822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30876433
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-019-1248-6

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