Radiographic evaluation of pulmonary fibrosis following mantle field irradiation in Hodgkin's disease.
Sixty-nine patients given mantle field radiation therapy for Hodgkin's disease and considered relapse-free and possibly cured were re-examined for pulmonary fibrosis as observed on antero-posterior and lateral chest radiographs. A method is described for the systematic evaluation of these late stage changes, which are observed following irradiation, in a numerical form. The method gave reproducible results in this series, the correlation coefficient being 0.72/0.81 and 0.73 respectively for the intra-observer and the inter-observer variations. The method thus may facilitate comparison between different patient materials.
D000328:Adult; D001344:Autopsy; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects*