[Rate of complications and dose rate in brachytherapy for carcinoma of the uterine cervix (author's transl)].

The results from 176 patients having undergone brachytherapy for carcinoma of the uterine cervix are reported, based on the evaluation of their case histories. Important complications in the course of the treatment are significantly more frequent after utilisation of an intra-uterine radium tube with 188.4 mg than after application of a 33-mg intra-uterine radium tube, whereas the rate of recurrences does not differ significantly, neither by the frequency nor by the site, after the application of differently loaded intra-uterine tubes. The problems of spatial and temporal dose distribution in brachytherapy are discussed considering especially the line of iso-effects and the influence of the angle of uterine inclination.