CT recognition of thorotrast-induced intracranial and lumbar arachnoiditis.

AW Kaplan, SS Teng, AH Koo - AJNR: American Journal of …, 1984 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Discussion Radioactive thorium dioxide has a biologic half-life of 400 years and a physical
half-life of 1.39 x 10'0 years. The emission consists mainly of alpha particles (90%) and …

Cauda equina lesion due to thorotrast

D Freilich - Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine, 1983 - Wiley Online Library
Thorotrast (Thorium dioxide) has been used in the past as a radiological contrast medium.
Its use resulted in serious side‐effects, often after a delay of many years. There was an …

Thorium dioxide myelopathy

AJD Dale, JG Love - JAMA, 1967 - jamanetwork.com
Thorium dioxide (Thorotrast), a radioactive substance with a very long half-life, has been
used in the past as a contrast medium for various roentgenologic studies. Some of these …

Case report: arachnoiditis following intracranial 'thorotrast'

PM Pandya, AJ Keogh - Clinical radiology, 1992 - Elsevier
A patient is reported with a painless, progressive cauda equina lesion due to arachnoiditis,
the result of the contrast medium 'Thorotrast'(thorium dioxide) introduced into the brain over …

A follow-up study of a group of patients who received thorium dioxide for cerebral arteriography

ML Janower, VW Sidel, M Jean Flynn - Radiology, 1967 - pubs.rsna.org
Human data on the effects of chronic low-dose internal-emitter radiation are limited. Most
information, until this time, has been provided by study of radium dial painters (1). This …

Computed tomography of intrathecal thorotrast

RG Sinnott, CM Citrin - Neuroradiology;(Germany, Federal Republic of), 1981 - osti.gov
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Made available by US Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information …

Meningioma induced by thorium dioxide

RH Kyle, A Oler, EC Lasser… - New England Journal of …, 1963 - Mass Medical Soc
THORIUM dioxide (Thorotrast) was introduced as a contrast medium for cerebral
angiography by Egas Moniz et al. 1 in 1931. Its instillation into the subarachnoid space and …

Late effects of Thorotrast in cerebral angiography

R Blomberg, LE Larsson, B Lindell… - Acta Radiologica …, 1963 - journals.sagepub.com
The contrast medium Thorotrast (a colloidal solution of thorium dioxide) and its possible
deleterious effects have been widely discussed, especially from the viewpoint of its …

Perivascular extravasation of thorotrast: report of a case with eleven-year follow-up

LW Brady, DE Chandler, RO Gorson, J Culberson - Radiology, 1960 - pubs.rsna.org
VARIOUS complications have been reported following the diagnostic use of colloidal
thorium dioxide (Thorotrast) since its introduction by Radt (9) in 1929. These have included …

Cauda equina damage after thorium dioxide myelography

HJ Tucker, WA Sibley… - Acta Radiologica …, 1966 - journals.sagepub.com
Thorotrast, a colloidal solution of thorium dioxide, a radioactive material with a long half-life
(about 14 billion years), was widely used for myelography from about 1938 until 1945 (15 …