Permanent iodine—125 implants in postoperative radiotherapy for head and neck cancer with positive surgical margins: B. Vikram, M. Shantilata Head Neck 16(2): 155–157

Permanent iodine-125 implants in postope

Permanent iodine-125 implants in postoperative radiotherapy for head and neck cancer with positive surgical margins

✍ Dr. Bhadrasain Vikram; Shantilata Mishra 📂 Article 📅 1994 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 288 KB

Background. Patients with head and neck cancer treated surgically have a high local recurrence rate, unless the surgeon is able to obtain adequate margins of resection. In patients with positive margins, tumor control is suboptimal despite postoperative radiotherapy. Methods. We treated 25 consecut