Re: No sternum

["andre geerdink" <volkswagen181@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Hi Glenn,



You find fibrosis in liver following liver-irradiation and liver-surgery(in 

patients). Liver can lose function and change in appearance under the 

microscope. If I remember correctly, the combination of irradiation an 

surgery is crucial for extreme damage.

The artikel: Haveman J., James J., and Geerdink A.G.: Collagen content in 

rat liver after experimentally induced cholestasis followed by 

choledochjejunostomy and X-irradiation.



André Geerdink













>From: "Glenn and Rita Marshall" <gmarshall@knology.net>

>Reply-To: "Glenn and Rita Marshall" <gmarshall@knology.net>

>To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

>Subject: No sternum

>Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:19:54 -0500

>

>I have a question for you medical HPs out there.  My mother-in-law has had 

>three surgical procedures done on her heart in the last 2 months.  Her 

>sternum has just about disintegrated, to the point where now they cannot 

>even close her up.  The surgeon thinks her sternum became embrittled from 

>the radiation treatments she had a few years ago when she had breast 

>cancer.  I'm positive he's nuts, and have said so.  But I'm not in the 

>medical HP field so I don't have any actual numbers in front of me to prove 

>my point.  What is the typical dose to a breast cancer patient from 

>brachytherapy?  What is the high end?  I have no idea how many treatments 

>she had; in fact until today I thought all they did was chemo.

>

>If there are any MDs who might know the reason for the breakdown of the 

>sternum, please let me know.

>

>Thanks,

>

>Glenn



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