Place of deep external X-ray irradiation in the treatment of carcinoma of the cervix by long element needles
| Autor: | William A. Reid, George W. Waterman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1949 |
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Radiotherapy
business.industry X-Rays Carcinoma chemistry.chemical_element Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Cervix Uteri medicine.disease Radium medicine.anatomical_structure chemistry Needles Neoplasms medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Female X ray irradiation Nuclear medicine business Cervix |
| Zdroj: | Radiology. 52(1) |
| ISSN: | 0033-8419 |
| Popis: | The Purpose of this paper is to review our experience at the Rhode Island Hospital over a ten-year period, 1933−42, in order (1) to determine what effect deep x-ray therapy has had on five-year survival rates; (2) to ascertain the incidence of severe complications with radium alone and with radium plus x-rays; (3) to answer, if we can, the question as to whether x-rays should be used before or after radium treatment; (4) to determine what the interval between x-ray and radium should be; (5) to estimate the value of a lead shield externally over the lower abdomen as protection to the paracervical region against overdosage from x-rays. The radium technic used in these cases has already been adequately illustrated and described in other publications. The x-ray therapy has been given by Drs. J. F. Boyd and Philip Batchelder of the Department of Radiology at the Rhode Island Hospital, the factors being 200 kv., 20 ma., target-skin distance 50 cm., filter 0.4 mm. Sn (Thoraeus). Two large fields, one anterior an... |
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