Post-radiation sciatic neuropathy: a case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: Post-radiation peripheral neuropathy has been reported in brachial and cervical plexuses and the femoral nerve. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a patient who developed post-radiation sciatic neuropathy after approximately 3 years and discuss the pathophysiology, clinical course and treatm...

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Autores principales: Gikas, Panagiotis D, Hanna, Sammy A, Aston, Will, Kalson, Nicholas S, Tirabosco, Roberto, Saifuddin, Asif, Cannon, Steve R
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2615011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19077234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-130
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author Gikas, Panagiotis D
Hanna, Sammy A
Aston, Will
Kalson, Nicholas S
Tirabosco, Roberto
Saifuddin, Asif
Cannon, Steve R
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Hanna, Sammy A
Aston, Will
Kalson, Nicholas S
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description BACKGROUND: Post-radiation peripheral neuropathy has been reported in brachial and cervical plexuses and the femoral nerve. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a patient who developed post-radiation sciatic neuropathy after approximately 3 years and discuss the pathophysiology, clinical course and treatment options available for the deleterious effects of radiation to peripheral nerves. CONCLUSION: This is the first case of post-radiation involvement of the sciatic nerve reported in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-26150112009-01-08 Post-radiation sciatic neuropathy: a case report and review of the literature Gikas, Panagiotis D Hanna, Sammy A Aston, Will Kalson, Nicholas S Tirabosco, Roberto Saifuddin, Asif Cannon, Steve R World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Post-radiation peripheral neuropathy has been reported in brachial and cervical plexuses and the femoral nerve. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a patient who developed post-radiation sciatic neuropathy after approximately 3 years and discuss the pathophysiology, clinical course and treatment options available for the deleterious effects of radiation to peripheral nerves. CONCLUSION: This is the first case of post-radiation involvement of the sciatic nerve reported in the literature. BioMed Central 2008-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2615011/ /pubmed/19077234 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-130 Text en Copyright © 2008 Gikas et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gikas, Panagiotis D
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Kalson, Nicholas S
Tirabosco, Roberto
Saifuddin, Asif
Cannon, Steve R
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title_short Post-radiation sciatic neuropathy: a case report and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2615011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19077234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-130
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