Clinical Study
Late Toxicities after Conventional Radiotherapy for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: Incidence and Risk Factors
Table 3
Neurological complications.
| ā | patients | Percentage (%) | Mean time to occurrence (months) |
| Temporal necrosis | 9 | 3.8 | 85 | Frontal necrosis | 2 | 0.8 | 46.5 | Brain stem necrosis | 5 | 2.1 | 54 | Temporal atrophy | 5 | 2.1 | 86 | Frontal atrophy | 1 | 0.4 | 72 | Myelitis | 1 | 0.4 | 17 | Optic nerve atrophy | 2 | 0.8 | 20 | Demyelinization of the white matter | 1 | 0.4 | 84 |
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