{"title":"Radiation pneumonitis following electron beam radiotherapy.","authors":"J S Wade, R K Kamath, C W Coffey, Y Maruyama","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A case of radiation pneumonitis is reported. The problem presented in a postmastectomy breast patient after completion of 5000 rads of high-energy electron beam radiotherapy. Within 7 months the lungs showed almost complete clearing and clinical symptoms had disappeared.</p>","PeriodicalId":76463,"journal":{"name":"Revista interamericana de radiologia","volume":"5 4","pages":"117-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1980-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Revista interamericana de radiologia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A case of radiation pneumonitis is reported. The problem presented in a postmastectomy breast patient after completion of 5000 rads of high-energy electron beam radiotherapy. Within 7 months the lungs showed almost complete clearing and clinical symptoms had disappeared.