Radiation induced temporal lobe necrosis in nasopharyngeal cancer patients after radical external beam radiotherapy

Abstract Radiation-induced temporal lobe necrosis (TLN) is one of the late post-radiotherapy complications in nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) patients. Since NPC is common to have skull base infiltration, irradiation of the temporal lobes is inevitable despite the use of the more advanced intensity-modu...

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Main Authors: Vincent W. C. Wu, Shing-yau Tam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-05-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-020-01560-0