Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
3196109 | Dermatologic Clinics | 2008 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Sclerosing postirradiation panniculitis is an unusual variant of panniculitis that appears as a complication of megavoltage radiotherapy. Most patient are women with a history of breast cancer who develop nodular lesions on the anterior chest skin several months after receiving megavoltage therapy for breast carcinoma. Sclerosing postirradiation panniculitis is an unusual cutaneous complication of megavoltage radiotherapy that should be distinguished from subcutaneous metastatic disease, cellulitis, and connective tissue diseases involving the subcutaneous fat. The differential diagnosis can be established on the basis of the characteristic histopathologic features.
Keywords
Related Topics
Health Sciences
Medicine and Dentistry
Dermatology
Authors
Luis MD, Carlos MD,