Normal tissue injury may lead to severe late side effects
after therapeutic use of irradiation. Radiation myelopathy
(RM) is an uncommon complication of therapeutic irradiation
whenever the spinal cord is included within the radiation
treatment field. Several factors such as radiation dose,
fractination, linear energy transfer, chemotherapy, modify
its occurrence and severity. Herein, we report a 43-year-old
male patient with nasopharyngeal cancer who developed
RM after concomitant chemoradiotherapy and discussed the
literature.
Keywords: Myelopathy; radiation; spinal cord
