First experience of (192)Ir source stuck event during high-dose-rate brachytherapy in Japan

PURPOSE: To share the experience of an iridium-192 ((192)Ir) source stuck event during high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy for cervical cancer. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In 2014, we experienced the first source stuck event in Japan when treating cervical cancer with HDR brachytherapy. The cause of the ev...

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Autores principales: Kumagai, Shinobu, Arai, Norikazu, Takata, Takeshi, Kon, Daisuke, Saitoh, Toshiya, Oba, Hiroshi, Furui, Shigeru, Kotoku, Jun’ichi, Shiraishi, Kenshiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7073345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32190071
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/jcb.2020.92401

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7073345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32190071
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/jcb.2020.92401

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