Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for a Lung Metastasis in a Child With Ewing's Sarcoma

J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2016 Aug;38(6):e199-201. doi: 10.1097/MPH.0000000000000617.

Abstract

Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy delivers a high dose of radiation to a small volume over several fractions. Although most commonly used as a treatment alternative to surgery in adult patients with primary lung cancer, its use has now been reported in children with metastatic disease to the lungs. We present the case of a child treated with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy to pulmonary metastases in preparation for a salvage stem cell transplant. The patient was treated to a dominant pulmonary nodule and successfully received his stem cell transplant, however he developed clinical and radiographic findings consistent with pneumonitis several months after treatment.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Bone Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
  • Lung Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Male
  • Radiosurgery*
  • Sarcoma, Ewing / radiotherapy*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed