Irradiation

external

• Synonyms

  • Radiation
  • Ionising radiation exposure

• Causes

  • Radiotherapy
  • Nuclear power plant accident

• Effects

  • Atrophic skin
  • Scarring alopecia
  • Anorexia
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Diarrhoea
  • Xerostomia
  • Apical lung fibrosis
  • Pulmonary microvascular injury
  • Chronic constrictive pericarditis
  • Oesophagitis
  • Mediastinitis
  • Aplastic anaemia
  • Myelodysplastic syndrome
  • Cystitis
  • Proctitis
  • Malignancy
  • Papillary thyroid cancer
  • Carcinoma of urinary bladder
  • Congenital malformation
  • Bowel bacterial overgrowth
  • Baroreceptor deafferentation syndrome
  • Retroperitoneal fibrosis
  • Enterocolic fistula
  • Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of Parotid
  • Parotid pleiomorphic adenoma
  • Burn
  • Sterile inflammation
  • Soft tissue injury
  • Ulcerative colitis
  • Recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy

• Treats

  • Carcinoma of breast