The authors report two cases of apparent adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
following limited thoracic irradiation for lung cancer. Respiratory failure followed rapidly after …

The authors report three patients who developed fatal respiratory failure after limited or
unilateral thoracic radiation therapy for neoplasms. The respiratory failure was characteristic …

Two cases of acute pulmonary distress following very shortly after irradiation of the upper
half of the body are described. The first occurred one hour and forty minutes after irradiation …

Classical radiation pneumonitis has been described after single dose whole lung irradiation
in experimental animals where above a threshold dose of irradiation, there is a sigmoid …

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 …

Abnormal pulmonary changes following radiation therapy over the lungs have long been
recognized and frequently described. The object of this paper is not a description of these …

An animal model of radiation-induced lung disease was established using male Wistar rats
given sublethal bilateral thoracic irradiation (15 Gy). The rats were studied for up to 20 …

IRRADIATION of the thoracic region can induce pathologic changes in normal lung tissue.
Although this reaction to radiation has been known for over thirty years, clinical recognition …

Recent data from several investigators, including our unit, have provided additional
information on the etiology of radiation-induced lung damage. These data suggest that there …

PULMONARY changes following radiation therapy for carcinoma of the lung were
recognized as early as 1898 (2) and have been described frequently since then. Clinical …