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Head & Neck Area
March 18, 2011
IMMOBILIZATION OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING RADIATION THERAPY FOR HEAD AND NECK MALIGNANCIES By Gunilla C. Bentel, RN, RTT Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina INTRODUCTION Spatial misalignment of a treatment field can have adverse effects on the outcome of the treatment. Missing part of the target may result in failure to cure and inadvertent irradiation ...
March 18, 2011
MIXED BEAM MODALITY FOR TREATING SCALP LESIONS: HEAD/NECK SUPPORT AND ALPHA CRADLE® BRAND FOAM Donland Dea, CMD, RTT University of California at San Francisco San Francisco, California Scalp lesions are actually skin lesions. The most common source of metastases to the scalp in men are due to neoplasm of the lung and kidney. For women ...
March 18, 2011
IMMOBILIZATION TECHNIQUES AND DOSIMETRIC ASPECTS FOR PITUITARY TUMORS Mona K. Weller, RTT, BS, CMD Patricia L. Muller, RTT, BS Stanley Sugai, RTT, CMD Jo Levenick, RTT Hahnemann University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania INTRODUCTION Twelve percent of intercranial tumors arise in the pituitary gland.1 The sella turcica houses the most common adult tumors-pituitary adenomas. Pituitary insufficiency and hypersecretion ...
March 18, 2011
HEAD & NECK REPOSITIONING AND IMMOBILIZATION WITH THE CNR, CUSTOM NECK ROLL Jeffrey Vincent Kostich, President Smithers Medical Products, Inc. North Canton, Ohio ALPHA CRADLE® BRAND PATIENT REPOSITIONING SYSTEM HF1, LHF, IHI, IHI-R, CNR Smithers Medical Products, Inc. is proud to introduce a new product that has been designed to work in conjunction with thermoplastics ...