Radiotherapy for the treatment of periocular tumours in the horse

• DOI: 10.1111/eve.12817
• Publication Date: 2017-09-14T07:25:22Z
• Authors: A. R. Hollis
• Keywords: Dose rate

Summary Periocular tumours are a relatively common problem in the horse, and present some unique challenges. Radiotherapy has long been considered ‘gold standard’ for treatment of periocular there various techniques delivering this treatment. Although teletherapy plesiotherapy occasionally used, most commonly used technique is interstitial brachytherapy. Low‐dose rate brachytherapy reported success rates between 74 100% sarcoids, other can also be successfully treated using technique. There significant disadvantages to low‐dose approach, recently, high‐dose described with sarcoid Electronic which may provide an alternative brachytherapy, but its use not reported, requirement general anaesthesia disadvantage.