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Radiation‐induced intracranial neoplasms. A report of three possible cases
Author(s) -
Anderson Janice R.,
Treip C. S.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19840201)53:3<426::aid-cncr2820530310>3.0.co;2-l
Subject(s) - medicine , ependymoma , astrocytoma , malignancy , radiation therapy , meningioma , pathology , central nervous system , radiology , glioma , cancer research
The pathologic findings are described in three patients who developed second intracranial neoplasms after irradiation for central nervous system malignancy. The second neoplasms were an astrocytoma, an ependymoma, and multiple meningiomas. All were histologically different from the first neoplasms and appeared in the field of irradiation between 3 and 15 years later. It is suggested that therapeutic irradiation was a causative factor in the development of these tumors.