Recognizing Radiation Therapy-related Complications in the Chest.

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From the Departments of Diagnostic Radiology (M.F.B., B.W.C., S.L.B.C., G.S.S., E.G.O.) and Radiation Oncology (D.G.), University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Unit 1478, Houston, TX 77030; Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex (A.P.A.B.); and Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel, affiliated with Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (E.M.M.).

Published: March 2020

Radiation therapy is one of the cornerstones for the treatment of thoracic malignancies. Although advances in radiation therapy technology have improved the delivery of radiation considerably, adverse effects are still common. Postirradiation changes affect the organ or tissue treated and the neighboring structures. Advances in external-beam radiation delivery techniques and how these techniques affect the expected thoracic radiation-induced changes are described. In addition, how to distinguish these expected changes from complications such as infection and radiation-induced malignancy, and identify treatment failure, that is, local tumor recurrence, is reviewed. RSNA, 2019.

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