Medicine:Plesiotherapy
Plesiotherapy is a radiation therapy modality in which a source of ionizing radiation is placed in contact with the exterior surface of the body.[1] This is as distinguished from teletherapy in which radiation is projected by the source from a distance, from brachytherapy in which one or more sealed sources of radiation are placed inside the body, and from radiopharmaceutical therapy in which a source is introduced into the body, but that source is unsealed.[citation needed]
In contrast with teletherapy, where the distance between the source and the patient is exploited to produce a shallow fall-off of beam intensity with depth; in plesiotherapy, the source geometry is exploited to produce a dose fall-off that is steep, for treating superficial areas.[2][3][4]
One example of plesiotherapy is use of the 90Sr eye applicator in the treatment of pterygium.[5]
References
- ↑ "Glossary of Medical Physics and Radiology". Medical Physics Publishing. https://www.medicalphysics.org/SimpleCMS.php?content=glossary.html. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
- ↑ Mitchell, A.; Jacob, D.; Andreou, K.; Raben, A.; Chen, H.; Koprowski, C.; Mourtada, F. (2014). "SU-D-19A-07: Dosimetric Comparison of HDR Plesiotherapy and Electron Beam Therapy for Superficial Lesions" (in en). Medical Physics 41 (6 Part 3): 111. doi:10.1118/1.4887870. ISSN 2473-4209. Bibcode: 2014MedPh..41..111M.
- ↑ Ray, Amitabh; Basu, Ayan; Aich, Ranen; Biswas, Litan; Pal, J (2010). "Plesiotherapy for non-melanoma skin cancer: Innovating to overcome!". Indian Journal of Dermatology 55 (4): 363–6. doi:10.4103/0019-5154.74547. PMID 21430891.
- ↑ Korzeniowski, MA; Crook, JM (30 Sep 2017). "Contemporary role of radiotherapy in the management of penile cancer.". Translational Andrology and Urology 6 (5): 855–867. doi:10.21037/tau.2017.07.02. PMID 29184783. PMC 5673811. https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC5673811. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ↑ Stevenson, T. C. (1953). "Use of strontium 90 applicator in beta ray therapy of the eye.". Transactions of the Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting 34: 115–123. PMID 13146801. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13146801/. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
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