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Radiat Oncol
; 7: 128, 2012 Aug 01.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22852824
RESUMO
We present the case of an 83 year old woman with a cardiac pacemaker located close in distance to a subsequently diagnosed invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast. Short range intraoperative radiotherapy was given following wide local excision and sentinel node biopsy. The challenges of using ionising radiation with pacemakers is also discussed.