Unexpected Symptomatic Pneumonitis Following Breast Tangent Radiation: A Case Report

Symptomatic radiation pneumonitis (RP) following radiation therapy (RT) to the breast alone is very uncommon. We report a case of an 80-year-old female who presented with fatigue, exertional dyspnea, fever, and cough 11.5 weeks following adjuvant breast RT with tangent fields alone. Imaging was cons...

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I publikationen:Cureus
Huvudupphovsmän: Conway, Jessica L, Long, Karen, Ploquin, Nicolas, Olivotto, Ivo A
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: Cureus 2015
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Radiation Oncology
Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4659583/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26623218
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.363
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