Histologic changes were studied in the lungs of rats irradiated with 3000 r to the thorax witn
shielding of the remainder of the body. In some animals the same total dose was given as 5 …

A case demonstrating fulminant radiation pneumonitis following a course of prophylactic
whole lung irradiation at doses below 2000 rads, resulting in death, is presented. The …

In The Treatment of metastatic disease of the lung, the injury to the lung parenchyma from
irradiation must be weighed against the possibility of long-term control. A clinical picture of …

IN preparing a report of the case of carcinoma of the bronchus here recorded, the present
writer made a careful survey of recent literature upon the general subject of lung carcinoma …

Four cases of radiation pneumonitis treated with prednisolone are described. Two patients
are alive and without respiratory symptoms 2½ years after treatment. One of these has a …

Autopsy (A-18-60): Residual lymphosarcoma was identified in both ovaries, one kidney, the
uterine cervix, vaginal mucosa, bone marrow, and abdominal lymph nodes. No tumor was …

Pulmonary radiation syndromes, with clinical manifestations ranging from pneumonitis to
fibrosis, are recognized as a spectrum of histopathologic abnormalities that represent the …

An unqualified answer to the above question is" yes". A qualified response, however,
requires that the word," nonirradiated", be defined. A truly nonirradiated lung represents the …

While some degree of injury to normal, non-tumor-bearing, intrathoracic structures always
occurs following irradiation for cure or palliation of neoplastic disease, clinical expression of …

Physiologic and anatomic changes following unilateral pulmonary irradiation up to 6,000
rads in dogs were studied. Fractionate irradiation was given to the right lung of 11 dogs …