[Soft roentgen therapy in cutaneous metastases of the eyelids].
METHODS
Within 6 months a 88-year-old woman developed cutaneous metastases with infiltration of the eye-lid so that an opening of the eye-lids became impossible. The primary tumor histologically resembled a mamma carcinoma.


METHODS
Within a few days the cutaneous metastases of the eye-lids decreased by using x-ray therapy with the Dermopan II with a single dosage of 5 Gy and a total dosage of 35 Gy on the eye-lids. Even 12 months after palliative therapy the opening of the eye-lids was possible without any problems.


CONCLUSIONS
By using the x-ray therapy immediate and gentle help could be given to the terminally ill patients so that eye-lid surgery could be avoided.
Pilz
J
J
Dermatologische Klinik und Poliklinik, Technischen Universität München.
Vogt
H J
HJ
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D005142:Eyelid Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010166:Palliative Care; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary*