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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Autores principales: Conway, Jessica L, Long, Karen, Ploquin, Nicolas, Olivotto, Ivo A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2015
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Radiation Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4659583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26623218
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.363
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author Conway, Jessica L
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description 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 consistent with RP, and she responded to a tapering course of steroids.
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spelling pubmed-46595832015-11-30 Unexpected Symptomatic Pneumonitis Following Breast Tangent Radiation: A Case Report Conway, Jessica L Long, Karen Ploquin, Nicolas Olivotto, Ivo A Cureus Radiation Oncology 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 consistent with RP, and she responded to a tapering course of steroids. Cureus 2015-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4659583/ /pubmed/26623218 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.363 Text en Copyright © 2015, Conway et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Unexpected Symptomatic Pneumonitis Following Breast Tangent Radiation: A Case Report
title Unexpected Symptomatic Pneumonitis Following Breast Tangent Radiation: A Case Report
title_full Unexpected Symptomatic Pneumonitis Following Breast Tangent Radiation: A Case Report
title_fullStr Unexpected Symptomatic Pneumonitis Following Breast Tangent Radiation: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Unexpected Symptomatic Pneumonitis Following Breast Tangent Radiation: A Case Report
title_short Unexpected Symptomatic Pneumonitis Following Breast Tangent Radiation: A Case Report
title_sort unexpected symptomatic pneumonitis following breast tangent radiation: a case report
topic Radiation Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4659583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26623218
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.363
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