Mark G Trombetta

..We propose a modification of the scale for patients who undergo retreatment--the Allegheny General Modification of the Harvard/NSABP/RTOG scoring scale...

..We wish to assess the clinical significance of fat necrosis resulting from post-lumpectomy breast irradiation...

..Herein, we compare patients treated with whole-breast irradiation followed by boost compared with a cohort with a planned intercurrent radiation boost...

..To evaluate the cosmetic outcome of brachytherapy after lumpectomy in the management of carcinoma of the previously irradiated breast...

..To examine the feasibility of using the MammoSite brachytherapy applicator in the retreatment of the previously irradiated breast...

..The development of metastatic disease in patients with paraganglioma is an unusual and challenging event. This case report and review describes the specific features of this disease and the multiple therapeutic options...

..A retrospective review to assess the efficacy and morbidity of surgical resection and (125)I interstitial lung brachytherapy placed in approximation to the aorta...

..To evaluate lumpectomy followed by interstitial brachytherapy as an acceptable salvage therapy for women who have developed localized recurrence of breast cancer after conservation surgery and postoperative external radiotherapy...

..To compare brachytherapy and three-dimensional (3-D) conformal external beam radiotherapy for breast cancer presenting in the previously irradiated breast...

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..To investigate radiation dose to the heart in 60 patients with left-sided breast cancer who were treated with balloon-based high-dose-rate brachytherapy using MammoSite or Contura applicators...

..In addition, preliminary dermatologic adverse event assessment data suggested reduced skin toxicity for patients treated with the PBI technique...

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..To measure the interfraction changes of the MammoSite applicator and evaluate their dosimetric effect on target coverage and sparing of organs at risk...

..An objective method was proposed and compared with a manual selection method to determine planner-independent skin and rib maximal dose in balloon-based high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy planning...

..To retrospectively report pacemaker (PM)/implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) dose in balloon high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy and provide distance-dose graph and table to approximately estimate the maximal device dose...

..To retrospectively compare radiation toxicity in patients treated with concurrent anastrozole and whole breast irradiation versus women treated sequentially with whole breast irradiation followed by hormonal suppression...

..In this report, we present the outcomes of sublobar resection with brachytherapy compared with lobectomy in patients with stage Ib tumors...

..In this report, we review the controversial subject of a second chance at breast conservation for women with a prior history of breast irradiation...

..Patient-related toxicity clinically measured by loss of pulmonary function and radiation-induced pneumonitis have not been linked to this procedure...

..6%). This safe, pulmonary function-preserving and practical intraoperative brachytherapy method should be considered when SR is used as a "compromise" therapy in these patients...

..To update the Allegheny General Hospital experience of high-risk Stage I non-small-cell lung cancer patients treated with sublobar resection and intraoperative (125)I Vicryl mesh brachytherapy...

..To evaluate the outcomes of choroidal melanoma in (CM) patients treated with (125)I episcleral plaque brachytherapy and to compare our single surgeon results with the multi-institutional Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS)...