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How do you manage a rib fracture caused by SBRT?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Colorado School of Medicine

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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