Delayed Thoracic Radiation Injury

• 作者: Barry Dicicco
• 来源期刊: 临床医学国际期刊(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: RADIATION INJURY Fibrothorax
• 年，卷（期）: 2012,（6）
• 页码范围: 524-526
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

A case of delayed thoracic radiation injury occurring many years after an initial lung insult is presented. This case involves an individual who developed acute respiratory failure due to severe pleural fibrosis or fibrothorax possibly as a result of distant radiation therapy for Hodgkins disease.