Carotid dosimetry and the risk of carotid blowout syndrome after reirradiation with head and neck stereotactic body radiation therapy

BJ Gebhardt, JA Vargo, D Ling, B Jones… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose To correlate carotid dose and risk of carotid blowout syndrome (CBOS) after
stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), hypothesizing that carotid dose does not
correlate with CBOS. Methods and Materials We retrospectively reviewed 186 patients with
recurrent, previously irradiated head and neck cancer treated between January 2008 and
March 2013. Patients treated early in our experience with incomplete dosimetry were
excluded from analysis (n= 111). A total of 75 patients were identified, providing 150 carotid …
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