Does prone positioning reduce small bowel dose in pelvic radiation with intensity-modulated radiotherapy for gynecologic cancer?
These preliminary data suggest that prone positioning on a belly board can reduce the small bowel dose further in gynecology patients treated with pelvic RT, and that the dose reduction depends on the IMRT technique used.
We found that, in immediately loaded implants inserted in soft tissue sites, it was possible to find a high percentage of bone-to-implant contact and that osseointegration was maintained for more than 1 year. This fact could be partly explained with the use of an implant with a rough surface.