Clinical Study of Radiation Pneumonitis Over 10 Years.

• Watanabe Hiroshi

  Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

• Suga Akiko

  Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

• Tsuchihashi Yoshiko

  Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

• Hori Akihiro

  Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

• Kawakami Kenji

  Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

• Masaki Hironori

  Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

• Akiyama Moritoshi

  Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

• Ohishi Kazunori

  Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

• Takahashi Atsushi

  Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

• Nagatake Tsuyoshi

  Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

• Matsumoto Keizo

  Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 過去１０年間における放射線肺臓炎の臨床的検討

Abstract

We studied clinical aspects of radiation pneumonitis from 1983 to 1992. Fifty seven patients admitted to our hospital because of lung cancer were treated with radiotherapy, and radiation pneumonitis developed in 20 (35.1%). The incidence of radiation pneumonitis was closely related to male sex, chronic obstructive lung disease, and chemotherapy. Pneumonitis was not related to age, or to the area or amount of radiation. Eighteen cases (90%) of pneumonitis occurred during or within one month after radiotherapy. In all but five cases (25%), pneumonitis was limited to the area of radiation. Treatment was mainly with steroids. In 4 cases (20%), pneumonitis recurred when steroid therapy was reduced, and five patients (10%) died.

Journal

• The Japanese journal of thoracic diseases

  The Japanese journal of thoracic diseases 33 (4), 384-388, 1995

  The Japanese Respiratory Society

Keywords

• Radiation pneumonitis
• Lung cancer
• Steroid

Details

• CRID: 1390001205017372288
• NII Article ID: 130003678780
• NII Article ID: 10008106880
• NII Book ID: AN00187758
• DOI: 10.11389/jjrs1963.33.384
• ISSN: 1883471X
• ISSN: 03011542
• PubMed: 7791266
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/1995236400
• Text Lang: ja
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