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5/2021
vol. 13
 
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Letter to the Editor

Acute parotitis in high-dose-rate brachytherapy treatment for skin cancer: a case report

Silvia Rodríguez Villalba
1
,
María José Pérez-Calatayud
2
,
Jose Pérez-Calatayud
1, 3
,
Jose Richart Sancho
1, 4
,
Manuel Santos Ortega
1

  1. Radiotherapy Department, Hospital Clínica Benidorm, Alicante, Spain
  2. Radiotherapy Department, Hospital General de Valencia, ERESA, Valencia, Spain
  3. Radiotherapy Department, La Fe University and Polytechnic Hospital, Valencia, Spain
  4. Radiotherapy Department, Hospital Iniversitario San Juan, San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
J Contemp Brachytherapy 2021; 13, 5: 493–496
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/jcb.2021.109994
Online publish date: 2021/10/14
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Brachytherapy (BT) for skin cancer is an accepted alternative technique, where surgical scars may be of cosmetic concern, or for elderly patients due to significant comorbidity. BT is used for macroscopic disease and as an adjuvant to surgery (after local excision due to positive or close margins or other unfavorable prognostic factors) [1-3].

The objective of this case report was to examine clinical evolution of a patient who unexpectedly developed an acute parotitis, after second adjuvant superficial brachytherapy fraction in the preauricular area. This unusual toxicity has been described in patients receiving external radiotherapy (EBRT) whose parotid gland was included within irradiation volume. After ruling out other causes of unilateral parotitis, clinical evolution, and dosimetric analysis, this reaction was attributed to BT treatment, showing the same known clinical situation but rarely appearing with low-dose external beam treatments. To our knowledge, this unusual toxicity has not been published previously, when BT was employed.
 
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