Treatment of hemophilic pseudotumor with low-dose radiotherapy.
Hemophilic pseudotumor is one of the most serious complications of hemophilia and is usually treated with extensive surgery. A new treatment approach is radiotherapy. Patients with long-bone pseudotumors are usually treated with high doses of radiotherapy greater than 1500 cGy. We treated a 13-year-old hemophilic boy who had a pseudotumor of the tibia with low-dose radiotherapy (600 cGy). There was no complication during the two-and-a-half-year follow-up. Improvement of both the clinical and radiological status of the patient was noteworthy. We would like to suggest the use of low-dose radiotherapy in patients with hemophilic pseudotumors.
Ozbek
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Department of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Unsal
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Kara
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Gumruk
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Gurgey
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D000293:Adolescent; D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000532:radiotherapy; D006406:Hematoma / Q000209:etiology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006467:Hemophilia A / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D013977:Tibia