[On the treatment of chronic progressive radiation myelopathy (author's transl)].

Abstract

Administration of Actihaemyl (protein-free blood extract) brought about rapid and almost complete remission in a case of rapidly progressive myelopathy after radiotherapy of cervical and thoracic lymph-nodes in a 19-year-old male with Hodgkin's disease.

• Authors: H E Kaeser
• Journal: Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) (Dtsch Med Wochenschr) Vol. 105 Issue 13 Pg. 446-7 (Mar 28 1980) ISSN: 0012-0472 [Print] Germany
• Vernacular Title: Zur Frage der Behandlung der chronisch-progredienten Strahlenmyelopathie.
• PMID: 7363797 (Publication Type: Case Reports, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Animals
• Blood
• Cattle
• Hodgkin Disease (radiotherapy)
• Humans
• Male
• Radiation Injuries (diagnosis, drug therapy)
• Spinal Cord (radiation effects)
• Spinal Cord Diseases (drug therapy)