Do you administer prophylactic antibiotics for GU procedures?
Do you recommend before and/or after procedures? Do you have the same recommendations for any or all the below: hydrogel space, fiducial placement, LDR or HDR brachytherapy.
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Do you use prophylactic antibiotics with RO GU procedures?
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Radiation Oncology · University of New Mexico School of Medicine
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The common GU procedures performed in radiation oncology are transperineal brachytherapy and transperineal retroprostatic hydrogel insertion. Rarely transrectal biopsy or transrectal intraprostatic injections may be performed by radiation oncologists. I don't believe any randomized studies looking a...
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