[Ultrasound diagnosis of angiopathy in antitumor therapy]

The ultrasound characteristics of arterial walls were assessed in 78 young and middle-aged male (42) and female (36) cancer patients (mean age 36 +/- 0.9) receiving radiation and/or polychemotherapy. The study was specifically concerned with quantitative and qualitative changes in the "intima-media" complex and the vasoactive dysfunction of the endothelium. We established the ultrasound characteristics of arterial walls, in particular, the damage done to the complex in the arteries in exposed sites, and angiopathies as a systemic manifestation of vasoactive dysfunction (polychemotherapy) or the combined effect on the vascular wall radiopolychemotherapy, vis-a-vis each therapeutic modality, separately and in combination.