Malignant pleural mesothelioma following radiotherapy in a 16-year-old boy.
Anderson KA, Hurley WC, Hurley BT, Ohrt DW.
A case of diffuse, epithelioid mesothelioma of the right pleura in a 16-year-old boy is presented. Though a history of previous exposure to asbestos could not be elicited, the patient did receive pulmonary irradiation for metastatic Wilms' tumor at the age of 2 years. The authors believe that the development of his mesothelioma was causally related to his prior radiotherapy.
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PMID: 2988741 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]