Morbus Ledderhose
Treatable Conditions: Clinical Systems
Clinicians use Xstrahl equipment to treat a variety of conditions Including non-melanoma skin cancer, and other benign and palliative applications.
New Applications of Radiotherapy for Benign Conditions
Most clinicians think of radiotherapy in the context of cancer treatment. Although superficial radiation therapy is often used to treat skin cancer, there are many benign conditions where this treatment modality provides excellent clinical outcomes and a positive...
German Patient magazine: Low energy X-ray therapy for pain treatment
The pain relief effect of the radiation was known after the discovery of the x-ray beams at the end of the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century the radiation therapy was used to treat not only benign conditions but also malignant tumours. This has...
Superficial Radiotherapy as a treatment for Dupuytren’s disease and skin cancer
Dupuytren's contracture is incredibly common, with rates in England of 20% of the population over the age of 65 having the disease. Causing a debilitating curling of fingers and toes, the most common treatment is surgery, causing long term and painful recovery. ...
Basics of Radiation Biology When Treating Hyperproliferative Benign Diseases
For decades, low- and moderate-dose radiation therapy (RT) has been shown to exert a beneficial therapeutic effect in a multitude of non-malignant conditions including painful degenerative muscoloskeletal and hyperproliferative disorders. Dupuytren and Ledderhose...
Radiation therapy for early stages of morbus Ledderhose
PURPOSE: To evaluate the efficacy of radiation therapy (RT) in the treatment of early stages of benign plantar fibromatosis (Morbus Ledderhose [ML]). PATIENTS AND METHODS: From 2003 to 2008, 24 patients (33 sites) with a mean age of 52 years received RT for...
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