Published January 1989
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Journal article
A case report of a thyroid papillary cancer that manifested leukocytosis and hypercalcemia after radiotherapy for bone metastasis
Creators
- 1. Kyoto Univ. (Japan). Faculty of Medicine
Description
Bone metastasis from a thyroid papillary cancer of a 59-year-old woman had been successfully treated with radiotherapy (6,000 rad) and iodine-131 (120 mCi). One year later, the patient developed leukocytosis (maximum 143,000/mm3) and hypercalcemia (16.0 mg/dl). A colony stimulating factor (CSF) was detectable in her plasma, and nude mice that had been given metastatic tissues sinilarly developed leukocytosis and hypercalcemia. Leukocytosis and hypercalcemia seemed to have been caused by the CSF produced in the bone metastasized tissues of this thyroid cancer. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Gan No Rinsho
- Journal Volume
- 35
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Series
- Gan No Rinsho.
- Journal Page Range
- 55-62
- ISSN
- 0021-4949
- CODEN
- GANRA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Japan
- Country of Input or Organization
- Japan
- INIS RN
- 20048548
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BONE TISSUES; CARCINOMAS; DELAYED RADIATION EFFECTS; EXTERNAL IRRADIATION; IODINE 131; LEUKOCYTES; METABOLIC DISEASES; METASTASES; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTISCANNING; SKELETON; THYROID
- Descriptors DEC
- BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BLOOD; BLOOD CELLS; BODY; BODY FLUIDS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DISEASES; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; GLANDS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; IODINE ISOTOPES; IRRADIATION; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; MEDICINE; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ORGANS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING; RADIOISOTOPES; THERAPY; TISSUES