TREATMENT OF HEMOPHILIC PSEUDOTUMOR WITH LOW-DOSE RADIOTHERAPY

Hemophilic pseudotumor is one of the most serious complications of hem ophilia and is usually treated with extensive surgery. A new treatment approach is radiotherapy. Patients with long-bone pseudotumors are us ually treated with high doses of radiotherapy greater than 1500 cGy. W e treated a 13-year-old hemophilic boy who had a pseudotumor of the ti bia with low-dose radiotherapy (600 cGy). There was no complication du ring the two-and-a-half-year follow-up. Improvement of both the clinic al and radiological status of the patient was noteworthy. We would lik e to suggest the use of low-dose radiotherapy in patients with hemophi lic pseudotumors.