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Hanne Blakstad1,2, Christine Wohlleben3, Cathrine Saxhaug4
1Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway hanbla@ous-hf.no.
BMJ Case Reports
|September 27, 2022
Abstract:
Stroke-like migraine attacks after radiation therapy (SMART) syndrome is a rare complication of radiotherapy with complex neurological impairment. Patients present with neurological symptoms and signs such as migraine, hemianopsia, hemiplegia, aphasia and/or seizures-without recurrence of neoplastic disease. In this report, we describe SMART syndrome in two adult patients 4 and 14 years following brain irradiation, respectively.
