Acute skin allergy to thermoplastic mask used for patient immobilization during radiation therapy: a case report

BACKGROUND: Radiosurgical treatments of brain tumors, vascular malformations, and functional disorders are more and more frequently used. Gamma Knife irradiation with the Icon system necessitates the use of a thermoplastic mask for head immobilization during treatment. Acute cutaneous allergy to the...

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Autores principales: Massager, Nicolas, Renier, Cécile, Devriendt, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29945670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1715-y
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description BACKGROUND: Radiosurgical treatments of brain tumors, vascular malformations, and functional disorders are more and more frequently used. Gamma Knife irradiation with the Icon system necessitates the use of a thermoplastic mask for head immobilization during treatment. Acute cutaneous allergy to thermoplastic masks has never been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: A 71-year-old Caucasian woman treated radiosurgically for a sphenoidal meningioma using the Icon Gamma Knife system developed an acute allergic skin reaction to the thermoplastic mask used for head immobilization. Corticoids and antihistamine drugs were needed to continue the radiosurgical procedure to its end. CONCLUSION: Allergic reaction of the skin during radiosurgery with a thermoplastic mask for head fixation can develop due to cutaneous contact of the face with the mask.
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spelling pubmed-60203042018-07-06 Acute skin allergy to thermoplastic mask used for patient immobilization during radiation therapy: a case report Massager, Nicolas Renier, Cécile Devriendt, Daniel J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Radiosurgical treatments of brain tumors, vascular malformations, and functional disorders are more and more frequently used. Gamma Knife irradiation with the Icon system necessitates the use of a thermoplastic mask for head immobilization during treatment. Acute cutaneous allergy to thermoplastic masks has never been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: A 71-year-old Caucasian woman treated radiosurgically for a sphenoidal meningioma using the Icon Gamma Knife system developed an acute allergic skin reaction to the thermoplastic mask used for head immobilization. Corticoids and antihistamine drugs were needed to continue the radiosurgical procedure to its end. CONCLUSION: Allergic reaction of the skin during radiosurgery with a thermoplastic mask for head fixation can develop due to cutaneous contact of the face with the mask. BioMed Central 2018-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6020304/ /pubmed/29945670 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1715-y Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_fullStr Acute skin allergy to thermoplastic mask used for patient immobilization during radiation therapy: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Acute skin allergy to thermoplastic mask used for patient immobilization during radiation therapy: a case report
title_short Acute skin allergy to thermoplastic mask used for patient immobilization during radiation therapy: a case report
title_sort acute skin allergy to thermoplastic mask used for patient immobilization during radiation therapy: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29945670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1715-y
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