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  • 1 Division of Neurology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Neurology, 2001 Aug 14;57(3):529-31.
PMID: 11502928

Abstract

In a hospital series of 70 patients on follow-up after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, 14 patients (20%) developed delayed post-irradiation bulbar palsy 1 to 18 years after radiotherapy (mean 5.5 years). Functional disability was moderate to severe. Three patients had aspiration pneumonia with one mortality. Post-irradiation bulbar palsy was a common complication and probably resulted from direct neuronal damage.

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