title: [Soft roentgen therapy in cutaneous metastases of the eyelids].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Dermatologische Klinik und Poliklinik, Technischen Universität München.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pilz
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Vogt
mesh_terms: 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*