Prostate brachytherapy: a three-year experience from the first 116 patients in Greece.

Purpose: To present the results from the first 116 patients with localized prostate cancer treated with transperineal ultrasonography-guided permanent brachytherapy, with special emphasis on the complications of this method.

Patients And Methods: During the last 3 years, 116 patients with localized prostate cancer underwent transperineal ultrasonography-guided permanent implantation with I(125) seeds. Permanent implantation consisted of 21-82 I(125) seeds of 0.