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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nakazaki, Kiyoshi
• Titoku, Shirou
• Ota, Shinzou
• Sato, Mitiyoshi
• Kobanawa, Satoshi
• Tutida, Kazuyuki
• Tanaka, Yasue
• Goto, Katsuya
• Ota, Taisei

Titel

Lacunar infarction in brain tumor patients: chronic stage complication after radiation therapy

Ist Teil von

• Nō shinkei geka, 2007-10, Vol.35 (10), p.1019

Ort / Verlag

Japan

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The authors reported two relatively young adults with lacunar infarction that took place many years after radiation therapy. The first case was that of a 41-year-old male presenting with a slight decrease in consciousness and right hemiparesis of sudden occurrence. MRI revealed a lacunar infarction in the left internal capsule. This patient had received radiation therapy and chemotherapy for a right basal ganglia germinoma when he was 24 years old. The tumor completely disappeared and he was able to return to work. The second case was a 24-year-old female presenting with dysesthesia in the right upper extremity and nausea of sudden occurrence. MRI disclosed a lacunar infarct in the right corona radiata. The patient had received radiation therapy for a suprasellar tumor when she was 11 years old. The tumor considerably decreased in size and the patient conducted normal social life thereafter. MRI showed a lacunar infarction in the right corona radiata. Review of the literature was made and the possibility of radiation therapy as a causative factor of the lacunar infarction in relatively young adults was discussed.