CT-guided palladium-103 seed brachytherapy for metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma: a retrospective study to assess initial safety and effectiveness of percutaneous CT fluoroscopy-guided permanent seed brachytherapy.

Purpose: Multiple pulmonary metastases present treatment difficulties in available treatment techniques, which are inconvenient or may damage sufficient pulmonary tissue to cause pulmonary crippling. This retrospective study of a single-community practice evaluated responses to computed tomography (CT)-guided Pd permanent seed brachytherapy (CTGPSB) in adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) synchronous pulmonary metastases. The purpose of the current study was to document that metastatic pulmonary ACC lesions can be controlled with CTGPSB.

A novel approach for salvage treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer: percutaneous CT fluoroscopy-guided permanent seed brachytherapy for salvage treatment of lung cancer: long-term results of a case series.

Purpose: We sought a curative technique to treat recurrent or primary non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a minimally invasive outpatient technique that could be repeated multiple times, had minimal pulmonary toxicity, and was readily available in the community setting. Percutaneous outpatient computed tomography (CT) fluoroscopy-guided permanent seed brachytherapy fits these criteria.

Material And Methods: Eight lesions in five patients (three patients had two lesions each) with NSCLC were treated using outpatient percutaneous CT fluoroscopy-guided palladium-103 seed brachytherapy.

Management of paranasal sinus metastasis by percutaneous CT-guided permanent seed brachytherapy.

Introduction: A painful maxillary sinus metastasis in previously irradiated tissue required palliation.

Methods And Materials: Lesion was treated by computed tomography-guided palladium103 implantation as an outpatient procedure; the lesion and its attendant facial pain and swelling resolved completely.

Conclusion: Computed tomography-guided permanent seed brachytherapy is a novel, rapid, effective, and low resource cost method of treating paranasal malignancy.

Percutaneous CT-fluoroscopic-guided radioisotope seed placement for the management of adenoid cystic carcinoma of the trachea.

Purpose: Tracheal and paratracheal malignancies present challenges in radiotherapeutic management due to their proximity to sensitive structures, central location, and because of the potential for catastrophic radiation induced fistula. The use of external beam radiation therapy and intraluminal brachytherapy has a limited number of reports in the literature. We have searched for a technique for treating tracheal and paratracheal malignancies allowing application of a high dose of radiation while minimizing dose to normal tissues.