Factor concerned with 'clinical radiation nausea'
| Autor: | Kurohara Ss, Levitts S, Rubin P, George Fw rd |
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| Rok vydání: | 1966 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Nausea Vomiting medicine.medical_treatment Anorexia Malaise Placebos medicine Humans Psychology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Intensive care medicine Radiation Injuries Clinical Trials as Topic Radiotherapy business.industry Thiethylperazine medicine.disease Clinical trial Radiation therapy Anesthesia Radiation sickness Etiology Antiemetics Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Radiology. 86(2) |
| ISSN: | 0033-8419 |
| Popis: | The term “radiation sickness” as applied in the management of patients with malignant disease refers to a well known but poorly defined symptom-complex. The symptoms include nausea, vomiting, anorexia, nervousness, insomnia, malaise, fatigue, headache, dizziness, tachycardia, etc. Many theories have been advanced as to the cause of clinical radiation sickness including choline poisoning, chloride depletion, glycogen dwindling, cholesterol alteration, and vitamin deficiencies (1). The etiology of the condition, however, remains unestablished. Numerous agents have been utilized in the treatment of this disorder, but there have been few properly controlled clinical trials for its adequate evaluation and response to management attempts. As a consequence, there has been little appreciation of the high incidence of placebo-responders to anti-emetic medications until quite recently (2, 3). This situation has resulted in the continued empirical use of a wide range of drugs for radiation nausea with little underst... |
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