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JAPANESE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 11, Pages 1091-1093Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hys135
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dropped head syndrome; chemoradiotherapy; nasopharyngeal carcinoma
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oDropped head syndrome' (DHS) is characterized by severe weakness of the muscles of the back of the neck, resulting in chin-on-chest deformity. Dropped head syndrome induced by radiotherapy is very rare. We report a case of DHS following chemoradiotherapy with a total of 64.8 Gy in 36 fractions for nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
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