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Radiation Pneumonia Complicating Adjuvant Cytotoxic Chemotherapy
Author(s) -
Manoharan A.,
Schonell M.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1980.tb03716.x
Subject(s) - medicine , prednisone , radiation therapy , chemotherapy , complication , pneumonia , respiratory disease , abnormality , adjuvant , surgery , lung , psychiatry
Summary: Radiation pneumonia complicating adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy. A. Manoharan and M. Schonell, Aust. N.Z. J. Med ., 1980, 10, pp. 218–220. A patient with Hodgkin's disease developed acute radiation pneumonia four months after completion of mantle radiotherapy and during cyclical adjuvant chemotherapy, Respiratory function tests were useful in the diagnosis of the interstitial abnormality and in monitoring response to prednisone. Serial respiratory function tests in patients receiving bimodal therapy may facilitate early diagnosis of this potentially serious complication.