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Brachytherapy using gold-198 foils in treatment of mouth tumors: case report
M A Fernandes1, C F Furuse, G S Pelissaro
1Radiotherapy Center of Sagrado Coração de Jesus Hospital, Araçatuba, Brazil.
Oral Oncology
|March 8, 2000
Abstract:
The authors presents a clinical case treated with brachytherapy performed with special mold of gold-198 disc, with the purpose of evaluating the distribution of radiation dose, the viability of manufacturing the radioactivity prosthesis and its operational cost. In despite of being only one case, we can conclude that the prosthesis with gold-198 foils can be manufactured in acrylic with thickness thinner than those ones with cylinder of cesium-137, resulting lower operational costs, besides permitting better distribution of radiation dose on the lesion.