Re: X-ray Acne Treatment

["Scott D. Kniffin" <Scott.D.Kniffin.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

At 14:54 09/16/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Such treatment is referred to in _Medical Effects of Ionizing Radiation_ by 
>Mettler and Upton, but there is no indication of doses involved.  They
refer to 
>an article which may have more details:  DeJong S, Demeter J, Jarosz H, et
al:  
>Thyroid carcinoma and hyperthyroidism after radiation therapy for adolescent 
>acne vulgaris.  Surgery 110:691-695, 1991.
>
By virtue of the thyroid problems mentioned here, I take it the doses 
were rather high.  However, just out of morbid curiosity, was the treatment
effective or was this along the lines of the "radium therapy" from the 
dawn of the nuclear age?

Scott Kniffin

Scott.D.Kniffin.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
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CHO, Radiation Effects Facility, GSFC, NASA, Greenbelt, MD

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