BILATERAL DIAPHRAGMATIC WEAKNESS - A LATE COMPLICATION OF RADIOTHERAPY

Brachial plexus neuropathy is an unfortunate complication that sometim es follows radiotherapy to the axillary and supraclavicular regions. A patient is described who, 30 years after radiotherapy for Hodgkin's d isease and more than 10 years after the development of radiation-induc ed bilateral brachial plexus neuropathy, presented with bilateral diap hragmatic weakness secondary to bilateral phrenic nerve weakness, Prev ious radiotherapy was the most probable cause of the condition.