Cerebral necrosis after 25 Gy radiotherapy in childhood followed 28 years later by 54 Gy radiotherapy

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 607-612

  Koot, Radboud W ^a,b   Stalpers, Lukas J A ^a   Aronica, Eleonora ^a   Andries Bosch, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain; Cerebral necrosis; Neurosurgery; Radiation injury; Radiation necrosis; Repeat radiation; SPECT; Thallium

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GROWTH HORMONE; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; THALLIUM 201; VINCRISTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; THALLIUM;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NECROSIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION NECROSIS; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; GLIOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CANCER; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RETREATMENT; SKULL IRRADIATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIOSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; NECROSIS; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETREATMENT; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34347336614     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.04.013     Document Type: Article

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