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Late Sequelae in Oncology pp 23–27Cite as

Radiation-Induced Injury of the Central Nervous System

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Abstract

Radiation therapy, since its introduction into clinical use, has played an integral part in the treatment and management of various intacranial benign and malignant tumors, and many studies have proven its efficacy. Initially, the central nervous system (CNS) was considered to be relatively radioresis-tant, but early reports from the 1940s describing severe damage of normal brain tissue and the spinal cord revealed the limited tolerance of the CNS to ionizing radiation (Boden 1948; Greenfield and Stark 1948).

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Müller, RP. (1995). Radiation-Induced Injury of the Central Nervous System. In: Dunst, J., Sauer, R. (eds) Late Sequelae in Oncology. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46794-3_3

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