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Brachytherapy seeds as a nidus for urethral stone formation: A case report

INTRODUCTION: Iatrogenic foreign bodies can cause urolithiasis. However, iodine seeds used in brachytherapy are not a known cause of stone formation. We report a rare case of urethral stone formation with brachytherapy seeds determined to be the nidus, which occurred 9 years after permanent seed bra...

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Autores principales: Kamisawa, Ken, Kosaka, Takeo, Hongo, Hiroshi, Mizuno, Ryuichi, Oya, Mototsugu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7292124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32743414
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iju5.12082