TY - JOUR T1 - Iatrogenic cerebral radiation necrosis JF - Practical Neurology JO - Pract Neurol SP - 427 LP - 430 DO - 10.1136/practneurol-2020-002904 VL - 21 IS - 5 AU - Carolina Maria Helena Hilton AU - Lena Specht AU - Eva Loebner Lund AU - Pernille Christina Martens AU - Grethe Schmidt AU - Lars-Henrik Krarup Y1 - 2021/10/01 UR - http://pn.bmj.com/content/21/5/427.abstract N2 - Cerebral radiation necrosis is the most serious late reaction to high doses of ionising radiation to the brain, and its treatment is generally unsatisfactory. We present a patient who developed cerebral radiation necrosis after protracted fluoroscopy during repeated embolisations of an extracranial arteriovenous malformation. Treatment with bevacizumab (a humanised murine monoclonal antibody against vascular endothelial growth factor) was followed by neurological and radiological improvements. ER -