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- Title
Insufficiency fracture after radiation therapy.
- Authors
Dongryul Oh; Seung Jae Huh
- Abstract
Insufficiency fracture occurs when normal or physiological stress applied to weakened bone with demineralization and decreased elastic resistance. Recently, many studies reported the development of IF after radiation therapy (RT) in gynecological cancer, prostate cancer, anal cancer and rectal cancer. The RT-induced insufficiency fracture is a common complication during the follow- up using modern imaging studies. The clinical suspicion and knowledge the characteristic imaging patterns of insufficiency fracture is essential to differentiate it from metastatic bone lesions, because it sometimes cause severe pain, and it may be confused with bone metastasis.
- Subjects
RADIOTHERAPY; PHYSIOLOGICAL stress; DEMINERALIZATION; TREATMENT of fractures; CANCER treatment; PROSTATE cancer treatment; CERVICAL cancer treatment; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Radiation Oncology Journal, 2014, Vol 32, Issue 4, p213
- ISSN
2234-1900
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3857/roj.2014.32.4.213