Are radiation induced skin injuries common among patients undergoing interventions?
No. Radiation induced skin injuries happen very rarely and the rough estimate is around one in 10,000 interventions. This figure can vary by a large margin as many injuries go unreported. The skin injuries can vary from mild erythema to deep skin ulceration. Many interventionalists still do not acknowledge that skin injuries have or could occur. Such denial has lead, in many cases, to uncertain and ill-directed care for some patients. Injuries occur weeks or months after the interventional procedure was performed and could create problems in diagnosis. Most of these injuries can be avoided by using established radiation protection approaches.
