Perioperative high dose rate brachytherapy in head and neck cancers: case report and review of clinical application

Perioperative high dose rate brachytherapy is a radiotherapy treatment technique which involves intraoperative insertions of brachytherapy catheters into the tumor bed during the surgical resection followed by treatment in the post-operative period. We report here two cases to highlight its use in t...

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Autores principales: Bahl, Amit, Verma, Roshan K, Panda, Naresh K, Oinam, Arun S, John, Jerry R, Kaur, Satinder, Kumar, Pramod, Ghoshal, Sushmita, Trivedi, Gaurav, Bakshi, Jaimanti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8749393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35047192
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20200158
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Sumario:Perioperative high dose rate brachytherapy is a radiotherapy treatment technique which involves intraoperative insertions of brachytherapy catheters into the tumor bed during the surgical resection followed by treatment in the post-operative period. We report here two cases to highlight its use in the primary treatment and reirradiation of head and neck cancers.

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