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Value of preoperative x-ray therapy as an adjunct to radical neck dissection
- Source :
- Radiology. 86(3)
- Publication Year :
- 1966
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Abstract
- In 1960, the Head and Neck Service and the Department of Radiation Therapy of the Memorial Hospital Center, New York, N. Y., instituted a controlled clinical study to determine the value of preoperative irradiation in the prevention of recurrence after radical neck dissection. To avoid a significant delay in surgery as well as complications, a tissue dose of 2,000 rads to the subcutaneous tissues of the neck was chosen. This was given by 5 treatments, each of 400 R in air, on five successive treatment days immediately preceding the operation. All therapy was administered through one large lateral field which covered the whole neck and included the primary except when it was in the maxilla, the palate, or the nasopharynx. The Allis-Chambers betatron was employed, with an electron beam of 18 Mev maximum energy. Patients born on an odd day received preoperative radiation, while those born on an even day did not, thus constituting a control group. It was agreed at the outset of the study that the patients in ...
- Subjects :
- Lateral field
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Neck dissection
Pharyngeal Neoplasms
Surgery
Radiation therapy
X-Ray Therapy
Preoperative radiation
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Maxilla
Preoperative Care
Medicine
Humans
Neck Dissection
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Preoperative irradiation
Mouth Neoplasms
Radiology
Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
business
Head and neck
Laryngeal Neoplasms
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00338419
- Volume :
- 86
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Radiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8af39348cf5474261bd0fdb572cabc79