Review of the Terminology Describing Ionizing Radiation-Induced Skin Injury: A Case for Standardization.

ABSTRACT: Ionizing radiation causes injury to the skin that produces a complex clinical presentation that is managed by various paradigms without clear standards. The situation is further complicated by the fact that clinicians and researchers often use different terms and billing codes to describe the spectrum of cutaneous injury. There is, however, general agreement between the two most commonly-used diagnostic scales, the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group and the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, and in their use to describe skin injury following radiation therapy. These scales are typically used by radiation oncologists to quantify radiation dermatitis, a component of the radiation-related disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue family of diagnoses. In rare cases, patients wit

SUBMITTER: Burnett LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8504211 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature