Late vascular complications after cranial radiotherapy: A report of two illustrative cases.
Brain Stem
/ diagnostic imaging
Cerebral Small Vessel Diseases
/ diagnostic imaging
Cranial Irradiation
/ adverse effects
Female
Humans
Male
Meningeal Neoplasms
/ diagnostic imaging
Meningioma
/ diagnostic imaging
Middle Aged
Migraine Disorders
/ etiology
Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
/ radiotherapy
Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms
/ radiotherapy
Organs at Risk
/ radiation effects
Stroke
/ etiology
Syndrome
Temporal Lobe
/ diagnostic imaging
Time Factors
Cranial radiotherapy
Microangiopathie minéralisante
Mineralizing microangiopathy
Radiothérapie crânienne
SMART syndrome
Syndrome SMART
Journal
Cancer radiotherapie : journal de la Societe francaise de radiotherapie oncologique
ISSN: 1769-6658
Titre abrégé: Cancer Radiother
Pays: France
ID NLM: 9711272
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2021
Dec 2021
Historique:
received:
18
01
2021
revised:
23
03
2021
accepted:
06
04
2021
pubmed:
28
4
2021
medline:
15
12
2021
entrez:
27
4
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Cranial radiotherapy (CRT) is used to treat a large variety of benign and malignant disorders. We present two cases of late neurological complications after CRT and briefly discuss its diagnosis and their shared pathophysiological aspects. The first case is a patient with cognitive impairment associated to mineralizing microangiopathy ten years after CRT for nasopharyngeal carcinoma and the second one is a woman with Stroke-like Migraine Attacks after Radiation Therapy (SMART) syndrome two years after CRT for anaplastic meningioma. Nowadays, higher survival rates might cause an increase in appearance of late neurological complications after CTR. These reported cases show that late complications can mimic a wide variety of neurological conditions and the importance of magnetic resonance image (MRI) to get a diagnosis.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33903008
pii: S1278-3218(21)00055-X
doi: 10.1016/j.canrad.2021.04.003
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
786-789Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 Société française de radiothérapie oncologique (SFRO). Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.