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Case Reports
. 1996 May:38 Suppl 1:S130-2.
doi: 10.1007/BF02278140.

MRI in radiation-induced myelopathy and pharyngocutaneous fistula

O Combarros  1 , F Iglesias, M V Guitera, J Berciano
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MRI in radiation-induced myelopathy and pharyngocutaneous fistula

O Combarros et al. Neuroradiology. 1996 May.

Abstract

A patient developed a cervical myelopathy 20 months after radiotherapy for a carcinoma of the larynx. MRI showed an intramedullary lesion at C7. Although radiation myelopathy was suspected, tumour recurrence could not be excluded. A radiation-induced pharyngocutaneous fistula, confirmed histologically, appeared a month later. The fistula lay just anterior to the level of the spinal cord lesion, a finding useful in supporting a diagnosis of simultaneous radiation myelopathy.

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