Do you consider a dose constraint to the phrenic nerve during lung and liver SBRT?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Thoracic Malignancies

Is there any correlation with dose in the area of the phrenic nerve and development of referred shoulder pain and/or diaphragm paralysis?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

This is a very interesting question for which I can not provide a ready answer since to my knowledge, there are no series or case reports that have specifically identified phrenic nerve injury associated with a course of SBRT. I would suggest that establishing constraints for this nerve would likely...

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