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Arterial rupture after microwave-induced hyperthermia and radiotherapy. With reference to two patients treated for recurrence in previously operated and irradiated areas

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Author

  • C E Lindholm
  • L Andreasson
  • Tommy Knöös
  • Torsten Landberg
  • Otto Ljungberg

Summary, in English

Two patients who developed frank arterial bleeding after combined microwave-induced hyperthermia and radiotherapy are described. One patient received re-irradiation and hyperthermia for recurrent metastatic neck nodes of a mesopharyngeal carcinoma. Full course radiotherapy had been given 6 years previously and a right-sided radical neck node dissection had been performed 4 months earlier because of recurrent neck node metastases. Six weeks after the combined therapy for a second recurrence, which achieved complete remission, a fatal rupture of the carotid artery occurred. The other patient received re-irradiation and hyperthermia for a chest wall recurrence of a breast carcinoma, treated 5.5 years previously by sector resection and tangential beam radiotherapy, and treated again 2 years earlier with extensive surgery for a local recurrence. A frank arterial bleeding from the treated region was seen after 7 months, but could be arrested with surgery. This important complication in combined hyperthermia and radiotherapy does not seem to have been recognized before. Different explanations are discussed, such as the previous local treatment as well as high temperature and atherosclerosis per se.

Publishing year

1990

Language

English

Pages

499-509

Publication/Series

International Journal of Hyperthermia

Volume

6

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Cancer and Oncology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging
  • Cell and Molecular Biology
  • Clinical Medicine

Keywords

  • arterial rupture
  • hyperthermia
  • complications

Status

Published

Research group

  • Pathology, Malmö

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0265-6736