Radiographic Evaluation of Pulmonary Fibrosis Following Mantle Field Irradiation in Hodgkin's Disease

B. V. Jensen DEPARTMENTS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, RADIOLOGY, CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY, AND RADIATION THERAPY, THE FINSEN INSTITUTE, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

N. L. T. Carlsen DEPARTMENTS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, RADIOLOGY, CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY, AND RADIATION THERAPY, THE FINSEN INSTITUTE, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

K. Peters DEPARTMENTS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, RADIOLOGY, CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY, AND RADIATION THERAPY, THE FINSEN INSTITUTE, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

N. I. Nissen DEPARTMENTS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, RADIOLOGY, CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY, AND RADIATION THERAPY, THE FINSEN INSTITUTE, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

P. G. Sørensen DEPARTMENTS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, RADIOLOGY, CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY, AND RADIATION THERAPY, THE FINSEN INSTITUTE, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

S. Walbom-jørgensen DEPARTMENTS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, RADIOLOGY, CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY, AND RADIATION THERAPY, THE FINSEN INSTITUTE, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

Abstract

Sixty-nine patients given mantle field radiation therapy for Hodgkin's disease and considered relapse-free and possibly cured were re-examined for pulmonary fibrosis as observed on antero-posterior and lateral chest radiographs. A method is described for the systematic evaluation of these late stage changes, which are observed following irradiation, in a numerical form. The method gave reproducible results in this series, the correlation coefficient being 0.72/0.81 and 0.73 respectively for the intra-observer and the inter-observer variations. The method thus may facilitate comparison between different patient materials.

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