Gómez VN, Salcedo PLA, Peñarete NR

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 224-229
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ABSTRACT

Complications of radiation therapy can occur in acute, subacute or delayed manner and they are different in manifestations, as they affect the brain, spinal cord or peripheral nerves. Two patients who were treated with radiotherapy were presented and after a year of therapeutic procedure, they developed clinical manifestations and imaging features consistent with a post-radiation myelopathy. None had disease progression with the use of steroids.

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