Eye shielding for patients treated with
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Chester Reft; Carla Rash; Jolanta Dabrowski; John C. Roeske; Dennis Hallahan
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Article
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1996
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The incidence of cataracts in patients who have received total body irradiation (TBI) is about 20% and increases to 40% if the patient is treated for graft-versus-host disease. At our institution, all TBI patients are treated with two lateral opposed 24 MV photon fields. No attempt is usually made t