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Radioactive Plaque Therapy with Iodine-125 and Palladium-103

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Radiotherapy of Intraocular and Orbital Tumors

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In 1930, Moore first used brachytherapy to preserve vision for a monocular patient with uveal melanoma (Finger 1997a). He implanted radon seeds directly into the uveal melanoma. Stallard tried this technique, but went on to develop cobalt-60 (60Co) plaque radiotherapy (Finger 1997a). Since that time there have been multiple phase-I clinical trials describing the use of a variety of brachytherapy sources [primarily ruthenium-106 (106Ru), iodine-125 (125I),iridium-192 (192Ir),and palladium-103 (103Pd)] for eye plaques (Finger 1997a).

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, The New York Eye Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, 115 East 61st Street, New York City, NY, 10021, USA

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY, 13210, USA

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  2. Department of Radiotherapy and Radiooncology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

    Winfried E. Alberti MD (Professor) (Professor)

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Finger, P.T. (2003). Radioactive Plaque Therapy with Iodine-125 and Palladium-103. In: Sagerman, R.H., Alberti, W.E. (eds) Radiotherapy of Intraocular and Orbital Tumors. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55910-5_6

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