Combarros O, Iglesias F, Guitera MV, Berciano J. MRI in radiation-induced myelopathy and pharyngocutaneous fistula.
Neuroradiology 1996;
38 Suppl 1:S130-2. [PMID:
8811700 DOI:
10.1007/bf02278140]
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Abstract
A patient developed a cervical myelopathy 20 months after radiotherapy for a carcinoma of the larynx. MRI showed an intramedullary lesion at C7. Although radiation myelopathy was suspected, tumour recurrence could not be excluded. A radiation-induced pharyngocutaneous fistula, confirmed histologically, appeared a month later. The fistula lay just anterior to the level of the spinal cord lesion, a finding useful in supporting a diagnosis of simultaneous radiation myelopathy.
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