Open AccessDelayed radiation myelopathy: Differential diagnosis with positron emission tomography/computed tomography examination
Author(s) -
Kadır Tufan,
Feyzi Birol Sarıca,
Özgür Kardeş,
Melih Çekinmez,
Altinors Mehmet Nur
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
asian journal of neurosurgery
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2248-9614
DOI - 10.4103/1793-5482.106656
Subject(s) - medicine , myelopathy , radiology , differential diagnosis , positron emission tomography , complication , spinal cord , magnetic resonance imaging , radiation therapy , nuclear medicine , surgery , pathology , psychiatry
Myelopathy is a rare but serious complication of radiation therapy (RT). Radiation myelopathy is white matter damage to the spinal cord developed after a certain period of application of ionizing radiation. Factors such as radiation dose and time between applications affect the occurrence as well as the severity of myelopathy. In those patients, positron emission tomography/computed tomography examination has a very important role both in the diagnosis and in the differential diagnosis of lesions. In this case report, the case of progressive paraparesis, developed in a 52-year-old female patient operated with pulmonary mucinous cystadenocarcinoma diagnosis and who received chemotherapy and RT following surgery, has been reported.