title: A slim 198gold-grain implanter loaded with standard Royal Marsden 14-grain magazines.
abstract: We designed a slim gold-grain implanter with adaptable lengths to implant areas accessible only through long, narrow, examining instruments, such as a suspension laryngoscope. The implanter is loaded with the same 14-grain magazine designed for and supplied with the Royal Marsden "gun." The simplicity of the loading mechanism with a minimum of moving parts makes the instrument practically trouble free. Although it is designed to be used along narrow examining instruments, it can also be used in any situation in which a permanent implant is required, for instance, prostatic cancer and pelvic recurrences in cancer of the uterine cervix previously treated by external and intracavitary irradiation.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006050:Gold Radioisotopes / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D006801:Humans; D020704:Laryngoscopes; D008297:Male; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D013679:Technology, Radiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy
chemical_list: D006050:Gold Radioisotopes