Published September 1987
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Journal article
Radiation necrosis causing failure of automatic ventilation during sleep with central sleep apnea
- 1. Jaslok Hospital and Research Center, Bombay, India
Description
A patient operated upon for a midline cerebellar hemangioblastoma developed failure of automatic respiration during sleep, together with central sleep apnea syndrome, approximately two years after receiving radiation therapy to the brain. Clinical and CT scan findings were compatible with a diagnosis of radiation necrosis as the cause of his abnormal respiratory control
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Chest
- Journal Volume
- 92
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Series
- Chest.
- Journal Page Range
- 567-569
- ISSN
- 0012-3692
- CODEN
- CHETB
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 19017487
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Descriptors DEI
- BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DELAYED RADIATION EFFECTS; NECROSIS; PATIENTS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SIDE EFFECTS; SLEEP
- Descriptors DEC
- BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BODY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASES; INJURIES; MEDICINE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORGANS; PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES; RADIATION EFFECTS; THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY