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Severe radiotoxicity in an allogeneic transplant recipient with a heterozygous ATM mutation.
European journal of haematology - 1 Jul 2015
Ostendorf Benjamin N, Terwey Theis H, Hemmati Philipp G, Böhmer Dirk, Pleyer Uwe, Arnold Renate
Abstract excerpt
Patients receiving radiotherapy often experience toxicity of the skin and mucous membranes. While radiotherapy is a mainstay of myeloablative conditioning for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (ASCT), no risk factors for radiotoxicity have been identified in this setting. Here, we report on a patient with excessive radiation-induced toxicity after ASCT who carried a heterozygous mutation in the...
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