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We describe two patients who developed devastating strokes due to intracranial arterial occlusion 15 weeks and 97 weeks following high dose stereotactic iodine-125 brachytherapy for glioblastoma multiforme. In both cases the occlusion was within the implant volume at points receiving 110–281 Gy and there was no other evidence of significant atherosclerosis in the patients. We therefore conclude that these complications were a direct result of the brachytherapy. The phenomenon of radiation-induced occlusion of large cerebral arteries is reviewed.
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Bernstein, M., Lumley, M., Davidson, G. et al. Intracranial arterial occlusion associated with high-activity iodine-125 brachytherapy for glioblastoma. J Neuro-Oncol 17, 253–260 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01049980
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