Brachytherapy
Volume 9, Issue 3 , Pages 239-242, July 2010

Periauricular mold brachytherapy

  • Bahadir Ersu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Prosthodontics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Dentistry, Ankara, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Hacettepe University, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Prosthodontics, Sihhiye, Ankara, 06100, Turkey. Tel.: +90-312-305-2240; fax: +90-312-311-3741.
    • ,
  • Ibrahim Tulunoglu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Prosthodontics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Dentistry, Ankara, Turkey
    • ,
  • Mustafa Cengiz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Received 9 March 2009; received in revised form 15 July 2009; accepted 16 July 2009. published online 23 October 2009.

Abstract 

Purpose

We present a patient with recurrent basal cell carcinoma (BCCA) who was treated with custom-made mold brachytherapy.

Methods and Materials

The patient was admitted to the hospital with the complaint of recurrent BCCA of the auditory canal. He has previously treated by surgery and external beam radiotherapy. We decided to continue with reirradiation to tumor bed after surgical excision. A total of 25Gy to 5mm depth of surgical bed was delivered by mold brachytherapy.

Results

The patient did well during the treatment without any acute toxicity. He was lost to followup after 2 years of treatment without any obvious late morbidity.

Conclusion

Custom-made mold brachytherapy is an alternative treatment modality, for reirradiation of selected group of patients, with minimal morbidity and good disease control.

Keywords: Brachytherapy, Mold, Periauricular, Basal cell carcinoma, Skin cancer

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 Conflict of interest: none.

PII: S1538-4721(09)00293-1

doi:10.1016/j.brachy.2009.07.006

Brachytherapy
Volume 9, Issue 3 , Pages 239-242, July 2010

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