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Radiation-induced temporary hair loss as a radiation damage only occurring in patients who had the combination of MDCT and DSA - European Radiology

  • ️Nakajima, Yasuo
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Abstract

As imaging technologies become increasingly advanced, it is possible to obtain detailed morphological information as well as functional imaging data. In some imaging technologies, the radiation dose increases with the ability to obtain better images or more detailed information. We encountered three cases of temporary bandage-shaped hair loss, which was caused by perfusion studies of the head by multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT) for evaluation of cerebral blood flow in patients with vascular disorders. In all three patients with temporary hair loss, two angiographies of the head had been performed in the period of serial CT examinations. This suggested the possibility that radiation exposure from angiography performed in serial examinations, combined with the perfusion studies of the head with MDCT, played an important role in this temporary, bandage-shaped hair loss. Radiologists should be aware that a cumulative or multiplier effect of radiation exposure from multiple diagnostic techniques may result in hair loss and other types of radiation complications.

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We thank Ms. Mary McAllister at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for the review of this paper.

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  1. Department of Radiology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2-16-1 Sugao, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa-ken 216-8511, Japan

    Yoshimasa Imanishi, Atsushi Fukui, Daisuke Itoh, Kyouko Nozaki, Shunsuke Nakaji, Kumiko Ishizuka & Yasuo Nakajima

  2. 694-14 Miyazaki, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa-ken 216-0033, Japan

    Yoshimasa Imanishi

  3. Department of Emergency, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2-16-1 Sugao, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa-ken 216-8511, Japan

    Hiroshi Niimi

  4. Department of Radiography, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2-16-1 Sugao, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa-ken 216-8511, Japan

    Hitoshi Tabata & Shiro Arima

  5. Department of Neurosurgery, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2-16-1 Sugao, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa-ken 216-8511, Japan

    Yu Furuya & Masahiko Uzura

  6. Department of Dermatology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2-16-1 Sugao, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa-ken 216-8511, Japan

    Hideto Takahama & Suzuo Hashizume

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Imanishi, Y., Fukui, A., Niimi, H. et al. Radiation-induced temporary hair loss as a radiation damage only occurring in patients who had the combination of MDCT and DSA. Eur Radiol 15, 41–46 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-004-2459-1

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  • Received: 08 May 2004

  • Revised: 13 July 2004

  • Accepted: 19 July 2004

  • Published: 04 September 2004

  • Issue Date: January 2005

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-004-2459-1

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