Intracoronary fiducial embolization after percutaneous placement for stereotactic radiosurgery

Although well established for the treatment of intracranial and prostatic pathology, stereotactic radiosurgery has only recently emerged as a modality for the treatment of malignant lung lesions. Utilization of radio-opaque markers, called fiducials, facilitate dose-intensive radiation focused on th...

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Main Author: Nassif, Anis S. (author)
Other Authors: Lim, Micheal J. (author), Stoeckel, David A. (author), Farkas, Emily A. (author), Naunheim, Keith S. (author)
Format: article
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/6447
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.08.057
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003497511020716
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Summary:Although well established for the treatment of intracranial and prostatic pathology, stereotactic radiosurgery has only recently emerged as a modality for the treatment of malignant lung lesions. Utilization of radio-opaque markers, called fiducials, facilitate dose-intensive radiation focused on the tumor with sparing of surrounding normal tissue. There is a paucity of literature regarding complications that occur secondary to placement of these fiducials. The following report details a case in which intracoronary migration resulted in a hemodynamically significant acute coronary syndrome.