| Literature DB >> 2319293 |
D Soffer1, J M Gomori, S Pomeranz, T Siegal.
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.Entities:
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Year: 1990 PMID: 2319293 DOI: 10.1007/bf00182089
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neurooncol ISSN: 0167-594X Impact factor: 4.130