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Calcification of mediastinal lymph nodes after radiation therapy of Hodgkin's disease usually occurs in patients with clinically localized disease who present without constitutional symptoms and have a favorable clinical course. A particularly high incidence of calcification has been observed so far in those patients given a higher than average radiation dose to the nodes which subsequently became calcified.
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Brereton et al. (1974) studied this question.
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