How would you manage a patient who developed an intraprostatic abscess after SpaceOAR injection, prior to starting radiation?
Would you hold RT until resolution of infection?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Rectal spacer complications are rare, but still happen. In a recent review, 0.4% of patients experienced a complication resulting in an adverse event report. 13% of these reports had a CTCAE of >= 3. Some of these adverse event reports (91/981) were abscesses related to SpaceOAR placement (Millot...
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Radiation Oncologist at Kansas City VA Medical Center This is an unnecessary complication for a minuscul...
Radiation Oncologist at Community Health Network If it is really an abscess in a closed space, it n...
This is an unnecessary complication for a minuscul...
If it is really an abscess in a closed space, it n...