Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for a Lung Metastasis in a Child With Ewing's Sarcoma.
Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy delivers a high dose of radiation to a small volume over several fractions. Although most commonly used as a treatment alternative to surgery in adult patients with primary lung cancer, its use has now been reported in children with metastatic disease to the lungs. We present the case of a child treated with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy to pulmonary metastases in preparation for a salvage stem cell transplant. The patient was treated to a dominant pulmonary nodule and successfully received his stem cell transplant, however he developed clinical and radiographic findings consistent with pneumonitis several months after treatment.
Departments of *Radiation Oncology †Pediatrics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
Mark J
MJ
Amsbaugh
Matthew
M
Bertke
Alexandra
A
Cheerva
Craig
C
Silverman
Neal
N
Dunlap
D000293:Adolescent; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D016634:Radiosurgery; D012512:Sarcoma, Ewing / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed