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When do you offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy to a pediatric brain tumor patient with radiation injury/necrosis?

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Radiation Oncology · St Jude Children's Research Hospital

I really think it depends as much on the clinical setting as it does the imaging appearance.

If you have a case where you are on the early end of the timeline for a CNS RN event (i.e. 3-4 mo post-RT) and the patient is high risk (due to location dose, re-RT, concurrent chemo, etc), then it's worth c...

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