CPB Budapest 2017

Drawbacks

of classical interstitial

techniques

CLASSICAL INTERSTITIAL TECHNIQUES

DRAWBACKS



Accurate freehand implantation is difficult

operator-depedent

-positioning often inaccurate

-loss of parallelism

-not reproducible

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Perineal templates (Syed, MUPIT, others)

- high number of needles used

- long distances between template and target (loss

of parallelism, inaccurate positioning)

- impediment for general acceptance:

considerable risk of serious acute/late complications