Header Logo

Brachytherapy

"Brachytherapy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
A collective term for interstitial, intracavity, and surface radiotherapy. It uses small sealed or partly-sealed sources that may be placed on or near the body surface or within a natural body cavity or implanted directly into the tissues.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Brachytherapy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Brachytherapy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 31 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2019
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.