TCRT June 2009

Volume 8
No. 3 (p 177-248)
June 2009
ISSN 1533-0338

Brachytherapy

Placement of MammoSite® Brachytherapy Catheter Under Computed-Tomography Scan Guidance (p. 177-180)

Placement of the MammoSite® breast brachytherapy catheter is most commonly performed either intraoperatively or under ultrasound-guided technique. Below, we present a case report of an alternate approach utilizing CT-scan guidance. This is the first reported case of a balloon brachytherapy catheter placement with this technique.

Subhakar Mutyala, MD^1,*
Ravindra Yaparpalvi, MS¹
Walter Choi, MD²
Keyur Mehta, MD¹
Marnee Spierer, MD¹
Shalom Kalnicki, MD, FACRO¹

¹Department of Radiation Oncology
Montefiore Medical Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York, USA
²Department of Radiation Oncology
Beth Israel Medical Center
New York, New York, USA
*smutyala@montefiore.org

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