Delayed Thoracic Radiation Injury - International Journal of Clinical Medicine

IJCM > Vol.3 No.6, November 2012

Delayed Thoracic Radiation Injury ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ijcm.2012.36094 4,015 Downloads 5,578 Views Citations

Author(s)

Barry Dicicco

Affiliation(s)

Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, USA..

ABSTRACT

A case of delayed thoracic radiation injury occurring many years after an initial lung insult is presented. This case involves an individual who developed acute respiratory failure due to severe pleural fibrosis or fibrothorax possibly as a result of distant radiation therapy for Hodgkins disease.

KEYWORDS

Radiation Injury; Fibrothorax

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B. Dicicco, "Delayed Thoracic Radiation Injury," International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol. 3 No. 6, 2012, pp. 524-526. doi: 10.4236/ijcm.2012.36094.

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