Intracranial atherosclerosis following radiotherapy

Werner, M.H.; Burger, P.C.; Heinz, E.R.; Friedman, A.H.; Halperin, E.C.; Schold, S.C.

Neurology 38(7): 1158-1160

1988


ISSN/ISBN: 0028-3878
PMID: 3386838
Document Number: 305832
We describe a case of severe intracranial atherosclerosis in a young man who had received therapeutic radiation for a presumed brain neoplasm. Since there was no evidence of vascular disease outside the radiation ports, we speculate that accelerated atherosclerosis was induced by radiation and that hyperlipidemia may have predisposed him to this effect.

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