Brachytherapy : An International Perspective

Author(s)

• Montemaggi, Paolo
• Trombetta, Mark
• Brady, Luther W.

Bibliographic Information

Brachytherapy : An International Perspective

Paolo Montemaggi, Mark Trombetta, Luther W. Brady, editors

（Medical radiology : diagnostic imaging and radiation oncology, . Radiation oncology）

Springer, c2016

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume is the first truly international text to take the practitioner from the history, the physical basis, and the rationale of brachytherapy through to the techniques, the results, and the management of complications. It is also the first truly comprehensive and complete textbook of brachytherapy. The chapters on the physics of brachytherapy and the technical planning of internal and surface radiotherapy are designed to enhance the practitioner's knowledge base and capabilities in this demanding specialty field. Disease site-specific chapters cover a wide range of applications, including ocular tumors, soft tissue sarcomas, cancers of the head and neck, skin, breast, lung, esophagus, and prostate, and gynecologic and anorectal malignancies. Each chapter incorporates the American and European guidelines and the text has been written from both perspectives by many of the most noted global experts in the field. A concluding chapter is devoted to brachytherapy quality assurance.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. History of Brachytherapy 3. Physics: The Physics of Brachytherapy 4. Physics: Low Energy Brachytherapy Physics 5. Physics: Balloon Brachytherapy Physics 6. Ocular 7. Head and Neck 8. Skin 9. Sarcoma 10. Breast: Interstitial 11. Breast: Intracavitary Balloon 12. Breast: Permanent Breast Seed implant (PBSI) 13. Breast: Management of Ipsilateral Breast tumor Recurrence (IBTR) 14. Thoracic: Lung and Chest Wall 15. Thoracic: Esophagus 16. Hepatic Brachytherapy 17. Gynecologic: Corpus Uteri 18. Gynecologic: Cervix 19. Gynecologic: Vulva 20. Gynecologic: Vagina 21. Gynecologic: Image Guidance in Gynecologic Brachytherapy 22. Prostate: Low dose rate interstitial 23. Prostate: High dose rate interstitial 24. Rectum and Anus 25. Brachytherapy Quality Assurance Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB21385786
• ISBN:
  • 9783319267890
• LCCN: 2016936095
• Country Code: sz
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [Switzerland]
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 408 p.
• Size: 27 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 616.99406424
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Breast -- Cancer -- Radiotherapy -- Complications
  • LCSH : Radioisotope brachytherapy
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01426817