How do you manage a rib fracture caused by SBRT?
What is the average healing time? What medications and/or procedures do you recommend for pain control? Does management differ for those with chest wall pain but no evidence of fracture?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Chest wall pain, with or without a radiographically evident rib fracture, is an infrequent complication of SBRT--and, it should be remembered, rib fracture is also an infrequent complication of conventionally fractionated RT, reported in numerous series of patients treated with RT to the breast/ches...
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