Torticollis following radiation therapy
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Dr. Ivan Landan; Paul A. Cullis
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Article
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1987
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A patient with adenocarcinoma in the apical portion of the lung producing a Pancoast's syndrome developed torticollis a few months after receiving a course of radiation therapy (5,040 rad) to his upper chest and neck. We describe this case, in which local radiation fibrosis of the neck muscles and p