Table 3 Complications in patients after brachytherapy with radioactive ¹²⁵I seeds

From: Combination of Iodine-125 brachytherapy and chemotherapy for locally recurrent stage III non-small cell lung cancer after concurrent chemoradiotherapy

Complications	Experimental group (n = 26)	Control group (n = 26)
Grade 4/5 complications	0	0
Mild complications
Mild pneumothorax	3	3
Hemoptysi	2	3
Low-grade fever (38.5 C)	2	5
Radiation pneumonitis	1	0
Seed migration	1	0
Local skin erythema	0	1
No complications	17	14

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