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Radiation-induced antrochoanal fibrosarcoma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

M. I. Liddington*
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15
R. F. Harrison
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15
M. R. C. Path
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, The Medical School, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15.
A. P. Booth
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15
A. R. Das Gupta
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15
*
Mr M. I. Liddington, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, St James University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF.

Abstract

Therapeutic radiation for malignant conditions is known to cause sarcomatous change in an irradiated field after a latent period; equally this change may occur following radiotherapy to benign conditions which may result in a more difficult management problem later. Radiotherapy to benign conditions should be reserved for use after failure of conventional surgery or other interventional techniques.

Type
Clinical Records
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1992

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