Spinal cord glioma following irradiation for Hodgkin's disease
- 15 April 1980
- Vol. 45 (8) , 2051-2055
- https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-0142(19800415)45:8<2051::aid-cncr2820450811>3.0.co;2-3
Abstract
A 21-year-old patient, after radiation therapy to the mediastinum for Hodgkin's disease, died six years later of a spinal cord glioma, believed to be caused by irradiation therapy. That the x-ray therapy provoked neoplastic changes seems likely, although it could be coincidental.Keywords
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