A very delayed case of post-irradiation myelopathy with unusual features.
A 48 year old man, irradiated 30 years before for a left laterocervical, lymphadenopathy, developed a progressive weakness of the left arm of two years duration. Myelography and other examinations excluded a compressive spinal process. The clinical and neurophysiological data point to a lesion in the spinal gray matter, probably due to the previous radiation treatment.
D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009431:Neural Conduction; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D013997:Time Factors