Gliomas following low-dose irradiation to the head report of three cases
โ Scribed by Dov Soffer; J. Moshe Gomori; Shlomo Pomeranz; Tali Siegal
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 534 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-594X
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โฆ Synopsis
Three patients developed cerebral gliomas decades after exposure to low-dose x-ray irradiation in childhood for the treatment of tinea capitis. One of the patients had a glioblastoma multiforme concomitant with multiple intracranial meningiomas, a condition highly correlated with previous irradiation. The other tumors were malignant cerebellar astrocytoma and a diffuse cerebral astrocytoma. We review the evidence suggesting that low-dose irradiation is involved in the pathogenesis of gliomas.
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