[Radiation-induced skin reactions (except malignant tumors)].

Abstract

The aim of this work, synthesized from personal case reports and a review of literature is to describe cutaneous complications of radiation therapy (except radiation-induced cancers): known and frequent such as radiation dermatitis or less frequent, beginning or strictly limited on irradiated skin areas: acne, infectious diseases, dyskeratosis, Grover's disease, sub-cutaneous pustulosis, cutaneous lichen, morphea, autoimmune bullous dermatosis, subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus. Furthermore, we try to precise the physiopathogenic mechanisms of these dermatosis and we want to draw the attention on these dermatoses which sometimes need a multidisciplinary approach.

• Authors: Isabelle Carrotte-Lefebvre, Emmanuel Delaporte, Xavier Mirabel, Frédéric Piette
• Journal: Bulletin du cancer (Bull Cancer) Vol. 90 Issue 4 Pg. 319-25 (Apr 2003) ISSN: 0007-4551 [Print] France
• Vernacular Title: Complications cutanées de la radiotherapie (hors tumeurs malignes).
• PMID: 12801815 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article, Review)

Topics

• Acute Disease
• Cardiac Catheterization (methods)
• Hand Dermatoses (pathology)
• Humans
• Langerhans Cells (radiation effects)
• Lupus Erythematosus, Cutaneous (etiology, pathology)
• Melanocytes (radiation effects)
• Pemphigoid, Bullous (etiology, pathology)
• Pemphigus (etiology, pathology)
• Radiodermatitis (etiology, pathology, therapy)
• Skin (radiation effects)