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Do you prescribe prophylactic steroids to patients receiving radiosurgery for AVMs?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Arizona
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I do not use prophylactic steroids when treating AVMs with stereotactic radiosurgery. In fact, usually SRS of AVMs is rarely associated with edema and these patients rarely require steroids in the observation period after SRS.

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