Plaque radiotherapy is a type of radiation therapy used to treat eye tumors. A thin piece of metal (usually gold) with radioactive seeds placed on one...

overlying the tumor. The plaque is left in place for a few days and then removed. The risk of metastasis after plaque radiotherapy is the same as that of...

Ocular tonometry Ophthalmoscopy Retinoscopy Slit-lamp examination Visual field test Radiation therapy Plaque radiotherapy History Couching Cryoextraction...

Ocular tonometry Ophthalmoscopy Retinoscopy Slit-lamp examination Visual field test Radiation therapy Plaque radiotherapy History Couching Cryoextraction...

Ocular tonometry Ophthalmoscopy Retinoscopy Slit-lamp examination Visual field test Radiation therapy Plaque radiotherapy History Couching Cryoextraction...

Ocular tonometry Ophthalmoscopy Retinoscopy Slit-lamp examination Visual field test Radiation therapy Plaque radiotherapy History Couching Cryoextraction...

radiation. High exposure to X-rays during diagnostic medical imaging or radiotherapy can also result in radiation burns. As the ionizing radiation interacts...

exposure, ultraviolet light, topical corticosteroids, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. Mycosis fungoides was first described in 1806 by French dermatologist...

Ocular tonometry Ophthalmoscopy Retinoscopy Slit-lamp examination Visual field test Radiation therapy Plaque radiotherapy History Couching Cryoextraction...

Bartholomew's Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, he pioneered cobalt plaque radiotherapy for the treatment of ocular tumours, particularly in children. He...

experience with beta-rays) Matched group study of surgical resection versus cobalt-60 plaque radiotherapy for primary... - Abstract - Europe PubMed Central...

Treatment for the primary eye tumor consists of eye-sparing therapy (plaque radiotherapy or proton beam irradiation) or eye removal (enucleation). Both are...

(pulmonary fibrosis due to asbestos), diffuse pleural thickening, pleural plaques, pleural effusion, rounded atelectasis and malignancies such as lung cancer...

membrane antigen PET-CT. This discovery may explain mouth dryness after radiotherapy despite the avoidance of the three major glands. However, these findings...

symptoms. Radiotherapy is used mostly for focal type of NM due to the nature of damage and success rate associated with the treatment. Radiotherapy targets...

treatment of choice is complete surgical removal, possibly combined with radiotherapy or chemotherapy. Tumors for which surgical removal is not possible or...

due to pancreatic cancer, for which she had refused chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Arrangements following her death reflected her Buddhism, and included...

frequent treatment modality. Radiotherapy, given as external beam radiotherapy or as brachytherapy (internal radiotherapy), can also be used to treat cSCC...

even localized disease being treated sequentially with chemotherapy and radiotherapy before surgical resection. Since this cancer, once developed, is independent...

tattoo. Tattoos have been used as fiducial markers as an aid in guiding radiotherapy. Typically these markers are tattooed in dark permanent ink, but ultraviolet...

Thus, gamma-rays generated for medical and industrial uses, for example radiotherapy, in the ranges of 6–20 MeV, can in this context also be referred to as...

as proctitis, one cause of which is radiation damage associated with radiotherapy to other sites such as the prostate. Faecal incontinence can result from...

later conceived children of cancer survivors who had previously received radiotherapy. The surviving women of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that could conceive,...

Department of Biochemistry, Department of Ophthalmology, and Department of Radiotherapy. The institute accepts medical students from other countries for elective...

painless, tender or itchy, and other MCC manifestations as papules or plaques have also been reported. Although MCC may arise almost anywhere on the...

cancer returned and she had a mastectomy, two rounds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. In 2000, Tomlinson was told that the cancer had spread to her bones...

prevention of oral mucositis in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiotherapy or chemoradiation, due to a lack of efficacy found in a well-designed...

originally used to decide the best treatment result by using external beam radiotherapy, as well as, the likeliness of salvaging the globe of the eye. Due to...

consisted of endoscopic resection, surgical resection, radiotherapy, endoscopic resection plus radiotherapy, or chemotherapy. Most patients show a complete response...

candidiasis include HIV/AIDS, active cancer and treatment, chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Corticosteroid medications may contribute to the appearance of oral...