1093 / 1983
EBRO
2017
Radiotherapy technique
OAR: Spinal cord
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Spinal cord injury rare but extremely debilitating
paralysis, sensory, deficits, pain, and bowel/bladder
incontinence
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Schultheiss review:
risk of myelopathy to be 0.2% at 50 Gy and 5% at 59.3 Gy
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Similar conclusions published by QUANTEC
Schultheiss TE, Kun LE, Ang KK, et al. Radiation response of the central nervous system.
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1995;31:1093–1112.