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[Benign meningioma following scalp irradiation in north African immigrants]
A Levin1, A Aizenberg, P Shvartzman
1Dept. of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba.
Harefuah
|June 1, 1995
Abstract:
Many Jewish immigrants from North Africa in the late 1950s were treated with low-dose irradiation of the scalp for tinea capitis. In 2 such patients, a 47-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman, both with long histories of headaches and dizziness, meningiomas were found. There is a well-known correlation between low-dose irradiation of the scalp and development of meningioma. Therefore, in immigrants from North Africa with prolonged headaches and dizziness, there should be a careful history with regard to irradiation of the scalp and investigation to exclude meningioma.