Anticoagulation for radiation injury

Abstract

To the Editor: Glantz et al recently published an important article [1] on the effect of heparin and warfarin on radiationinduced nervous system injury in 11 patients, one of whom had myelopathy. We have encountered two cases of delayed radiation myelopathy, one of which has been treated with oral anticoagulants. [2] The first patient, a 72-year-old diabetic woman with cervical lymph node metastasis from …