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ArticleJournal of contemporary brachytherapy2010

Interstitial brachytherapy for liver metastases and assessment of response by positron emission tomography: a case report.

Daya Nand Sharma, Sanjay Thulkar, Rakesh Kumar, Goura Kishor Rath

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In one paragraph

Article in Journal of contemporary brachytherapy, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 82% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Daya Nand SharmaDepartment of Radiation Oncology.
Sanjay ThulkarDepartment of Radiodiagnosis.
Rakesh KumarDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Goura Kishor RathDepartment of Radiation Oncology.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For liver metastases (LM), image guided percutaneous ablative procedures such as radiofrequency ablation (RFA), laser induced thermal therapy (LITT) and trans-arterial chemo-embolisation (TACE) are increasingly being used because they are relatively safer, less invasive and equally effective. CT scan guided interstitial brachytherapy (IBT) with a single large dose of radiation by high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy is a novel technique of treating LM and has shown good results. Positron emission tomography (PET) scan may provide better information for assessing the response to IBT procedures. We hereby report a case of LM that was treated by HDR IBT and PET scan was done in addition to CT scan for assessing the response.

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interstitial brachytherapyliver metastasesPET scan

Identifiers

PMID27853472
PMCPMC5104830
OpenAlexW2142085738

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