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Gadolinium-DTPA enhancement of lung radiation fibrosis
W C Werthmuller1, M L Schiebler, R A Whaley
1Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7515.
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
|November 1, 1989
Abstract:
Gadolinium-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA) enhancement of radiation-induced apical pulmonary fibrosis was observed in two patients previously treated for breast cancer. In one case the fibrosis was biopsied twice, with no change in its CT appearance over 3 years. Gadolinium-DTPA may enhance benign apical fibrosis after radiation therapy and should not, in and of itself, be used as evidence of recurrent malignancy.