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Review
. 1989 Mar;70(3):469-74.
doi: 10.3171/jns.1989.70.3.0469.

Postradiation astrocytoma. Report of two cases

C Kitanaka  1 , N Shitara, T Nakagomi, H Nakamura, S Genka, K Nakagawa, A Akanuma, H Aoyama, K Takakura
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Postradiation astrocytoma. Report of two cases

C Kitanaka et al. J Neurosurg. 1989 Mar.

Abstract

The authors describe two cases of malignant astrocytomas associated with previous radiation therapy in childhood for intracranial germinoma and craniopharyngioma. In both patients, there was no recurrence at the primary tumor site. Because of a geometric coincidence between the tumor location and the radiation field, radiotherapy was strongly implicated as a cause of these two astrocytomas.

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