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Case Reports
. 1990 Feb;8(1):67-72.
doi: 10.1007/BF00182089.

Gliomas following low-dose irradiation to the head report of three cases

D Soffer  1 , J M Gomori, S Pomeranz, T Siegal
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Gliomas following low-dose irradiation to the head report of three cases

D Soffer et al. J Neurooncol. 1990 Feb.

Abstract

Three patients developed cerebral gliomas decades after exposure to low-dose x-ray irradiation in childhood for the treatment of tinea capitis. One of the patients had a glioblastoma multiforme concomitant with multiple intracranial meningiomas, a condition highly correlated with previous irradiation. The other tumors were malignant cerebellar astrocytoma and a diffuse cerebral astrocytoma. We review the evidence suggesting that low-dose irradiation is involved in the pathogenesis of gliomas.

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