Gadolinium-DTPA Enhancement of Lung Radiation Fibrosis
- 1 November 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
- Vol. 13 (6) , 946-948
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00004728-198911000-00002
Abstract
Gadolinium-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA) enhancement of radiation-induced apical pulmonary fibrosis was observed in two patients previously treated for breast cancer. In one case the fibrosis was biopsied twice, with no change in its CT appearance over 3 years. Gadolinium-DTPA may enhance benign apical fibrosis after radiation therapy and should not, in and of itself, be used as evidence of recurrent malignancy.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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