Interventional Radiation Therapy [electronic resource] : Techniques — Brachytherapy /

1 Basic Principles -- 1.1 Principles of Combining External Beam and Brachytherapy -- 1.2 Fundamentals in Radiobiology -- 1.3 Fundamentals in Physics -- 1.4 Brachytherapy Techniques -- 1.5 High and Low Dose Rate Remote Afterloading: A Critical Comparison -- 2 Brain Tumors -- 2.1 Basic Principles of Brachycurietherapy of Brain Tumors -- 2.2 Imaging-Stereotaxic Implantation of Radionuclides in Intracranial Tumors (Curietherapy and Brachycurietherapy) -- 2.3 Experimental Dose Effects After Permanent and Temporary Interstitial Irradiation of the Brain -- 2.4 Fractionated Afterloading Therapy in the Treatment of Malignant, Inoperable Brain Tumors -- 2.5 External Stereotactic Focal Irradiation -- 2.6 External Stereotactic Focal Irradiation of Arteriovenous Malformations by a Routinely Used Linear Accelerator -- 3 Choroidal Melanoma -- 3.1 Results After Brachytherapy Using 106Ru/106Rh Plaques for Choroidal Melanomas -- 3.2 Choroidal Melanoma: Role of Brachytherapy in Management -- 3.3 Experience with High-Dose ?-Irradiation (106Ru/106Rh) of Choroidal Melanomas -- 4 Head and Neck Tumors -- 4.1 Classification of Oral Cavity and Oropharynx Carcinomas -- 4.2 Interstitial Radiotherapy of Oral Cavity and Oropharynx Carcinomas (Paris Technique) -- 4.3 Interstitial Brachytherapy in Head and Neck Tumors -- 4.4 Manual Afterloading in Brachytherapy (Endocurietherapy with 192Ir Wires and Needles) -- 4.5 Temporary and Permanent Brachytherapy in Advanced Head and Neck Cancer — The Erlangen Experience -- 4.6 198Au Implantation of Carcinoma of the Mobile Tongue -- 5 Breast Cancer -- 5.1 Brachycurietherapy in Breast Cancer -- 5.2 Interstitial Boost Irradiation: Indications, Technique, Complications -- 5.3 Interstitial Boost Irradiation Technique and Dosage -- 5.4 Iridium-192 Afterloading for Boosting the Tumor Bed -- 6 Anal Canal Cancer -- 6.1 Carcinomas of the Anal Canal: An Introduction -- 6.2 Role of Combined Radiochemotherapy: The Lyon Experience -- 6.3 Combination Therapy of Anal Canal Cancer: A Report on External Irradiation With or Without Chemotherapy Followed by Interstitial Iridium 192 -- 6.4 Radiochemotherapy of Anal Canal Cancer With or Without Interstitial Implants -- 6.5 Conservative Treatment of Anal Carcinoma: The Surgeon’s View -- 7 Prostatic Cancer -- 7.1 Interstitial Irradiation in Prostatic Cancer: Report of 10-Year Results -- 7.2 Interstitial Radiotherapy: The Freiburg Experience -- 7.3 Cancer of the Prostate: Brachytherapy Techniques -- 7.4 Percutaneous Iodine-125 Implantation Guided by Ultrasound -- 7.5 Transperineal 125I Implantation Guided by Ultrasound: Preliminary Results of 150 Cases -- 8 Gynecological Malignancies -- 8.1 Interventional Radiation Therapy Techniques in Gynecology -- 8.2 Technical Aspects of Bladder Dosimetry in Intracavitary Irradiation of Carcinoma of the Cervix -- 8.3 Intracavitary High Dose Rate Afterloading Therapy with Iridium 192: Basic Physical Measurements, Dosimetry, and Localization -- 8.4 Present Status and Perspectives of High Dose Rate Afterloading in Gynecologic Malignancies -- 8.5 Five-to Seven-Year Results in High Dose Rate Radiation of Cancer of the Cervix -- 8.6 Prospective Clinical Trial Concerning High Dose Rate Afterloading Therapy in Cancer of the Cervix and Endometrium -- 8.7 Comparison Between High Dose Rate Afterloading and Conventional Radium Therapy -- 8.8 High Dose Rate Afterloading Compared with Conventional Brachytherapy -- 8.9 Low and High Dose Rate Afterloading in Gynecological Malignancies -- 9 Interstitial Hyperthermia -- 9.1 Techniques and Clinical Experience of Interstitial Thermoradiotherapy -- 9.2 Interstitial and Intraoperative Hyperthermia -- 9.3 Interstitial Thermoradiotherapy in the Treatment of Malignant Tumors -- 9.4 Experiences With Interstitial Hyperthermia as a Sole Treatment Modality or Combined with Radiotherapy -- List of Contributors.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Sauer, Rolf. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1991
Subjects:	Medicine., Radiology., Oncology., Surgery., Medicine & Public Health., Imaging / Radiology.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84163-7
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