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Title: Frontal lobe astrocytoma following radiotherapy for medulloblastoma

Abstract

A young woman had a frontal lobe astrocytoma 14 years after successful treatment of a posterior fossa medulloblastoma by surgery and whole-neuraxis irradiation. The association of these two tumors is rare, and it is unlikely that the second tumor was the result of metastasis and differentiation of residual or recurrent medulloblastoma. We review the evidence supporting this view and also the likelihood that the astrocytoma was induced by the prior radiation.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
5705735
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Neurology; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 31:5
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; ASTROCYTOMAS; RADIOINDUCTION; BRAIN; DELAYED RADIATION EFFECTS; ETIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENTS; RADIOTHERAPY; SIDE EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BODY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASES; GLIOMAS; MEDICINE; NEOPLASMS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; ORGANS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOLOGY; THERAPY; 550603* - Medicine- External Radiation in Therapy- (1980-); 560151 - Radiation Effects on Animals- Man; 550900 - Pathology

Citation Formats

Cohen, M S, Kushner, M J, and Dell, S. Frontal lobe astrocytoma following radiotherapy for medulloblastoma. United States: N. p., 1981. Web. doi:10.1212/WNL.31.5.616.
Cohen, M S, Kushner, M J, & Dell, S. Frontal lobe astrocytoma following radiotherapy for medulloblastoma. United States. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.31.5.616
Cohen, M S, Kushner, M J, and Dell, S. 1981. "Frontal lobe astrocytoma following radiotherapy for medulloblastoma". United States. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.31.5.616.
@article{osti_5705735,
title = {Frontal lobe astrocytoma following radiotherapy for medulloblastoma},
author = {Cohen, M S and Kushner, M J and Dell, S},
abstractNote = {A young woman had a frontal lobe astrocytoma 14 years after successful treatment of a posterior fossa medulloblastoma by surgery and whole-neuraxis irradiation. The association of these two tumors is rare, and it is unlikely that the second tumor was the result of metastasis and differentiation of residual or recurrent medulloblastoma. We review the evidence supporting this view and also the likelihood that the astrocytoma was induced by the prior radiation.},
doi = {10.1212/WNL.31.5.616},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5705735}, journal = {Neurology; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 31:5,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981},
month = {Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981}
}