Protection of the intestine during radiation of the pelvic bone.
We have given a short course of intensive radiotherapy to two patients with osteogenic sarcoma of the right iliac bone while protecting the intestine by displacement. With the follow-up period now being a year and a half and two years, there is no evidence of injury to the intestine. Insertion of the pack does not require major dissection, and its removal is not traumatic. Both patients had displacement of viscera on the right side, but there is no reason anatomically why this procedure cannot be applied for similar lesions on the left side.
D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium; D007422:Intestines; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000379:methods*; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage