Brachytherapy in localized prostatic cancer: 100 years of radium.
Contemporary series of brachytherapy in localized prostate cancer show promising early results attributable to improved patient selection and technical refinements in treatment modalities. These innovations consist essentially of precise three-dimensional radioactive dose-distribution planning and source placement, thus solving the problem of possible under-dosage encountered in open brachytherapy.
Loch
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Klinik für Urologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany. tlocht@urology.uni-kiel.de
Kovács
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Stöckle
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