Thyroid dysfunction after mantle irradiation of Hodgkin's disease patients
β Scribed by Khoo, VS ;Liew, KH ;Crennan, EC ;D'Costa, IM ;Quong, G
- Book ID
- 108931862
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 473 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-8461
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Seventeen patients with extrathoracic Hodgkin's disease were treated with mantle field irradiation and repeatedly observed with regard to their ventilatory function for 9-23 months after the completion of radiotherapy. Twelve of them also underwent thorough studies of pulmonary gas exchange. The vit
## Abstract Thyroid function was evaluated in a consecutively treated group of children and adolescents with Hodgkin disease who received incidental radiation to the thyroid gland. Ten of 27 (36.7%) were found to have elevated concentrations of thyroidβstimulating hormone (TSH). Two groups of pati