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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?
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Radiation Oncology · University of New Mexico School of Medicine
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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 et...

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