Dr Deepak Gupta, Dr Priyanka Gajraj, Dr Shikha Goyal, Dr Shyam Singh Bisht, Dr Tejinder Kataria, Mr K Venkatesan, Dr Susovan Banerjee, Dr Kushal Narang, Dr Pallav Bhatter
Incremental use of high dose radiotherapy with Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) in thoracic tumors has led to identification of many unusual toxicities (chest wall pain, rib fractures, vascular perforation, brachial plexopathy) and consequently additional organs at risk (chest wall, ribs, bronchial wall, carotid artery, brachial plexus). Phrenic nerve is another structure which may be affected at any point during its long course from origin till end, although symptomatic toxicities have been reported rarely in the setting of reirradiation, large volume irradiation such as mantle field or SABR...
August 14, 2022: Practical Radiation Oncology