Meningioma after radiotherapy for Hodgkin's disease.
The most common second primary tumors after treatment of childhood Hodgkin's disease are leukemia, lymphoma, breast cancer, soft tissue sarcoma, and thyroid cancer. Although intracranial meningioma has been reported after radiotherapy to the scalp for benign conditions and for intracranial primary brain tumors, this appears to be an extremely rare sequelae of treatment for Hodgkin's disease. The authors describe a 15-year-old boy who underwent radiotherapy for Hodgkin's disease and in whom a meningioma developed in the posterior fossa 27 years later.
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Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D013997:Time Factors