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ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS	12 Months Ended
ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS	Dec. 31, 2012
Organization and Description Of Business [Abstract]
ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS	NOTE A - ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS The terms “Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our” mean Theragenics Corporation® and all entities included in our consolidated financial statements. We are a medical device company serving the surgical products and cancer treatment markets, operating in two business segments. Our surgical products business consists of wound closure, vascular access, and specialty needle products. Wound closure includes sutures, needles, and other surgical products. Vascular access includes introducers, guidewires, and related products. Specialty needles include coaxial, biopsy, spinal and disposable Veress needles, access trocars, implanters, introducer products and other needle based products. Our surgical products segment serves a number of markets and applications, including among other areas, interventional cardiology, interventional radiology, vascular surgery, orthopedics, plastic surgery, dental surgery, urology, veterinary medicine, pain management, endoscopy, and spinal surgery. Our brachytherapy seed business manufactures, performs custom loading, markets, and distributes “seeds” used primarily in the minimally invasive treatment of localized prostate cancer. “Custom loading” refers to loading the seeds into custom needles, strands or other packaged configurations as prescribed by the healthcare provider administering the treatment. Our brachytherapy product line includes our palladium-103 TheraSeed® device, our iodine-125 based AgX100® device, and other related products.