Additional limitations include the difficulty in diagnosing symptomatic RP in the setting of patients with underlying lung disease susceptible to community or healthcare-acquired pneumonia, general homogeneity of the studied population, lack of information on quit dates for current smokers versus former smokers, and near-significant heterogeneity of the location of treated lesions between the symptomatic RP and asymptomatic cohorts.
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Correlation of dosimetric factors with the development of symptomatic radiation pneumonitis in stereotactic body radiotherapy.
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