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Abstracts

Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer after Colectomy for Colorectal Cancer: Pilot experience.--Submitted for publication to Journal of Urology in April 2004.

Brachytherapy of prostate cancer in patients with prior colorectal cancer--Accepted for publication at Joint Brachytherapy Meeting 2004 in Barcelona, Spain

Three-dimensional computed tomography-guided brachytherapy of prostate cancer in patients without rectum--Submitted to American Society of Clinical Oncology 2004 Conference on December 10, 2003


PubMed Abstracts
Koutrouvelis PG, Gillenwater J, Lailas N, et al. High and intermediate risk prostate cancer treated with three-dimensional computed tomography-guided brachytherapy: 2-8-year follow-up. Radiother Oncol. 2003 Jun;67(3):303-308.
Koutrouvelis PG, Lailas N, Katz S, et al. Prostate cancer with large glands treated with 3-dimensional computerized tomography guided pararectal brachytherapy: up to 8 years of followup. Journal of Urology 2003 Apr;169(4):1331-1336.
Koutrouvelis PG Computed tomography-guided salvage brachytherapy of recurrent large nonresectable familial colo-rectal cancer in the pelvis: case report. Technol. Cancer Res. Treat. 2002 Feb;1(1):61-64.
Theodorescu D, Gillenwater JY, Koutrouvelis PG Prostatourethral-rectal fistula after prostate brachytherapy. Cancer. 2000 Nov 15;89(10):2085-91.
Koutrouvelis PG Three-dimensional stereotactic posterior ischiorectal space computerized tomography guided brachytherapy of prostate cancer: a preliminary report. J Urol. 1998 Jan;159(1):142-5.
Koutrouvelis PG and Lang E Stereotactic lumbar microdiscectomy. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 1996 Jan;7(1):49-57. Review.
Koutrouvelis PG, Louie A, Lang E, et al. A three-dimensional stereotactic device for computed tomography-guided invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Invest Radiol. 1993 Sep;28(9):845-7.

Koutrouvelis PG, Lang E, Heilen R, et al. Stereotactic percutaneous lumbar discectomy. Neurosurgery 1993 Apr;32(4):582-6.


Published Papers
Koutrouvelis PG, Lailas N, Katz S, et al. Three-Dimensional Computed Tomography-Guided Monotherapeutic Pararectal Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer with Seminal Vesicle Invasion. Accepted for publication in Journal of Radiotherapy and Oncology, 2001.

Koutrouvelis PG, Lailas N, Goldson A, et al. 3-D CT-Guided Brachytherapy for Localized Prostate Cancer in Patients with Large Volumes: 5-Year Follow-up. J. Brachytherapy Int 2000; 16:1-10.

Koutrouvelis PG, Lailas N, Katz S, et al. High and Low Risk Prostate Cancer Treated with 3-D CT-Guided Monotherapeutic Brachytherapy: 1-5 Year Follow-up. Journal of Endourology 2000; 14: 357-366.
Koutrouvelis PG. 3-D CT-Guided Montherapeutic Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer: 68-Month Follow-up. Presented at the ABS/GEC/ESTRO/GLAC Joint International Meeting, Arlington, Virginia, 5/21/2000.
Theodorescu D, Gillenwater JY, Koutrouvelis PG. Prostatourethral-rectal fistula after prostate brachytherapy. Cancer. 2000 Nov 15;89(10):2085-91.
Koutrouvelis PG. Seminial Vesicle Biopsy with 3-D CT-Guided Stereotaxis for Staging of Prostate Cancer. Presented at RSNA Scientific Sessions, Chicago, Illinois, December 1999.
Koutrouvelis PG. 3-D CT-Guided Pararectal Biopsy and Brachytherapy of Seminal Vesicles. Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic American Urological Association, Hilton Head, South Carolina, October 1999.
Koutrouvelis PG. CT-Guided Three Dimensional Transisichiorectal Approach for Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer. Presentation to the Medical Radiological Research Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. July 1999.
Koutrouvelis PG. Three Dimemsional Stereotactic CT-Guided Brachytherapy For Localized Prostate Cancer In Patients with Large Volumes: 58-Month Follow-up. Presented at the ESTRO Meeting in Ziest, Holland May 1999.
Koutrouvelis PG. Salvage Brachytherapy For Recurrent Local Prostate Cancer. Presented at the American Brachytherapy Society Exhibit in San Diego, California May 1999.
Koutrouvelis PG. Three Dimensional Stereotactic CT-Guided Brachytherapy For Localized Prostate Cancer In Patients with Large Volumes: 58-Month Follow-up. Presented at the American Brachytherapy Society Exhibit in San Diego, California May 1999.
Koutrouvelis PG. Three-Dimensional Stereotactic Posterior Ischiorectal Space CT-Guided Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer: A Preliminary Report. Journal of Urology 159:142-145, 1998.
Koutrouvelis PG. Three Dimensional Stereotactic Transischiorectal Space CT-guided Conformal Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer. Presented at the RSNA Scientific Sessions, Chicago, Illinois, December 1997.
Koutrouvelis PG, et al. Stereotactic Transgluteal CT-Guided Conformal Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer is not Limited by Prostate Size, Bone, or Urinary Obstruction, or TURP Defects. British Journal of Urology 80, supp 2:268, 1997. Presented to 24th Congress of SIU, Montreal Canada, September 1997.
Koutrouvelis PG, et al. Prostate Implant of I-125 Seeds in Strand With Stereotactic CT-Guided Transgluteal Approach. British Journal of Urology 80, supp 2:273, 1997. Presented to 24th Congress of SIU, Montreal Canada, September 1997.
Koutrouvelis PG. Stereotactic Transgluteal CT-Guided Conformal Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer is not Limited by Prostate Size, Obstruction or TURP Defects. Radiation & Oncology 43:10, 1997. Presented to Annual Brachytherapy Meeting, GEC-Estro, Stockholm, Sweden, May 1997.
Koutrouvelis PG. Stereotactic Transgluteal CT-Guided Conformal Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer is Not Limited by Prostate Size, Bone Obstruction or TURP Defects. Presented to Annual Meeting of the American Brachytherapy Society, May 1997, Palm Beach, Florida.
Koutrouvelis PG. Prostate Implant of I-125 Seeds In Strand with Stereotactic CT-Guided Transgluteal Approach. Presented to Annual Meeting of the American Brachytherapy Society, May 1997, Palm Beach, Florida.
Koutrouvelis PG, et al: Stereotactic Transgluteal Approach for Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer. Endocurietherapy/Hypothermia Oncology Journal 12:127-136, 1996.
Mondalek PM, Koutrouvelis PG, Morganstern SL, et al. Advances in Prostate Seeding: Comparison of the Transrectal Ultrasound- and Transgluteal CT-guided Techniques. Presented to the RSNA Scientific Sessions, November 1995.
Koutrouvelis PG. Advances of Interstitial Radiation of the Prostate using CT Guidance, Transgluteal Stereotaxis and Palladium 103 Radioactive Seeds. The Northern Virginia Institute for Continuing Medical Education on Prostate Cancer, May 1995.
Koutrouvelis PG, et al: A three-dimensional stereotactic device for computed tomography-guided invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Investigative Radiology 28:845-847, 1993.

Talks
Koutrouvelis PG. CT-Guided State-of-the-Art Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer. Department of Radiation Oncology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD November 17, 2002.

Koutrouvelis PG. State of the Art Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer. Presented to the Urological Society of Northern Greece. 15 November 2002.

Koutrouvelis PG. Three-Dimensional CT-Guided Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer. Presented at the GEC-ESTRO, 9-11 May 2002, Antalya, Turkey.

Koutrouvelis PG. High & Low Risk Prostate Cancer Treated with 3-D CT-Guided Monotherapeutic Brachytherapy: 1-6 Year Follow-up. Presented at the RSNA meeting in November 2001.

Koutrouvelis PG. Three-Dimensional Computed Tomography-Guided Salvage Brachytherapy of Recurrent Large Nonresectable Familial Colo-Rectal Cancer in the Pelvis: Case Report. Presented at the RSNA meeting in November 2001.

Koutrouvelis PG. State of the Art Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer Lecture. Philippine Urological Association, Inc. 43rd Scientific Convention. Mandaluyong City, Philippines, November 30 to December 2, 2000.

Koutrouvelis P. Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer with Seminal Vesicles Involvement (T3c Disease). Presented Radiation Oncology Department, Howard University Hospital. Sep 2000.

Koutrouvelis P. 3-D CT-Guided Monotherapeutic Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer: 68-Month Follow-up. Presented at the ABS/GEC/ESTRO/GLAC Joint International Meeting on 5/21/2000.

Koutrouvelis P. 3-D CT-Guided Pararectal Biopsy and Brachytherapy of Seminal Vesicles. Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic American Urological Association, Hilton Head, S.C. October 1999.

Koutrouvelis P. Seminal Vesicle Biopsy with 3-D CT-Guided Stereotaxis for Staging of Prostate Cancer. Presented and Published RSNA Scientific Sessions, Chicago, Illinois, December 1999.

Koutrouvelis P. CT-Guided Three-Dimensional Transischiorectal Approach for Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer. Presentation to the Medical Radiological Research Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. July 1999.

Koutrouvelis PG. Salvage Brachytherapy For Recurrent Local Prostate Cancer. Presented at the American Brachytherapy Society Exhibit in San Diego, California May 1999.

Koutrouvelis PG. Three Dimensional Stereotactic CT-Guided Brachytherapy For Localized Prostate Cancer In Patients With Large Volumes: 58-Month Follow-up. Presented at the American Brachytherapy Society Exhibit in San Diego, California May 1999.

Koutrouvelis PG. Salvage Brachytherapy For Recurrent Local Prostate Cancer. Presented at the ESTRO Meeting in Ziest, Holland May 1999.

Koutrouvelis PG. Three Dimensional Stereotactic CT-Guided Brachytherapy For Localized Prostate Cancer In Patients With Large Volumes: 58-Month Follow-up. Presented at the ESTRO Meeting in Ziest, Holland May 1999.

Koutrouvelis PG. Three Dimensional Stereotactic Transichio-rectal Space CT-guided Conformal Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer. Presented at the RSNA Scientific Sessions December 1997.

Koutrouvelis PG. Prostate Implant of I-125 Seeds In Strand with Stereotactic CT-Guided Transgluteal Approach. Presented to Annual Meeting of the American Brachytherapy Society, May 19-20, 1997, Palm Beach, Florida.

Koutrouvelis PG. Stereotactic Transgluteal CT-Guided Conformal Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer is Not Limited by Prostate Size, Bone Obstruction or TURP Defects. Presented to Annual Meeting of the American Brachytherapy Society, May 19-20, 1997, Palm Beach, Florida.

Koutrouvelis PG. Stereotactic Transgluteal CT-Guided Conformal Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer is Not Limited by Prostate Size, Obstruction or TURP Defects. Radiation & Oncology 43:10, 1997. Presented to Annual Brachytherapy Meeting, GEC-Estro, Stockholm, Sweden, May 5-7, 1997.

Koutrouvelis PG, et al. Stereotactic Transgluteal CT-Guided Conformal Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer, presented at the 11th Biannual Meeting of the International Society for the Upper Urinary Tract in Patras Greece, August 1996.

Koutrouvelis PG. Advances of Interstitial Radiation of the Prostate using CT Guidance, Transgluteal Stereotaxis and Palladium-103 Radioactive Seeds. The Northern Virginia Institute for Continuing Medical Education on Prostate Cancer, May 6, 1995.

Mondalek PM, Koutrouvelis PG, Morganstern SL, Jones NE. Advances in Prostate Seeding: Comparison of the Transrectal Ultrasound- and Transgluteal CT-guided Techniques, presented to the RSNA Scientific Sessions, November 1995.

Koutrouvelis PG. Extracranial CT Stereotaxis. A Safe, Simple, and Accurate Technique for Percutaneous Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures. Clinical Conference, National Institute of Health, January 9, 1995.

Koutrouvelis PG. Stereotactic Needle Placement for Intradiscal Therapy, Annual Meeting of International Intradiscal Therapy Society, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, May 21, 1994.

Koutrouvelis PG. Stereotactic Percutaneous Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures utilizing a 3-Dimensional Stereotaxis System and CT Scanning, presented in Bucharest, Romania, September 1993.

Koutrouvelis PG. Stereotactic Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomies, European Radiology Association and Congress, Vienna, Austria, September 1993.

Heilen R, Lang ER, Koutrouvelis PG. Stereotactic Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy. Annual Virginia Orthopaedic Society Convention May 1, 1993, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Koutrouvelis PG. Stereotactic Percutaneous Lumbar Diskectomy using the PGK Stereotactic Device, RSNA Scientific Exhibit, November 1991.

Koutrouvelis PG, Lang ER. Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy using the PGK Stereotactic device, Under CT Guidance: Annual Orthopedic Convention of Spine Disorders, September 21, 1990, Greece.

Koutrouvelis PG. Fine needle aspiration biopsy of tumor masses, lungs, liver, kidneys, adrenals, etc., under CT guidance. Presented at the Cyprus Medical Convention, Limasol, Cyprus, June 1987.

Koutrouvelis PG. Non-invasive evaluation of coronary artery disease with Thallium 201 and radionuclide ventriculography. Presented at the XII World Congress of Angiology, Athens, Greece, 1980.

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