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Radiation-induced alopecia is very rare in neurointerventional surgery due to limited radiation dose. Furthermore, no case referred to the reversible hair loss after angioplasty rather than endovascular embolization. A 54-year-old man with diabetes manifested a sign of alopecia after an endovascular stenting for symptomatic basilar artery stenosis. The topography of hair loss patch was in a shape of a rectangle, and it recovered literally in 6 months, without any treatment. The reduction of exposure of patients to radiation during fluoroscopically directed interventional procedures should be performed as possible. Speculatively, metabolic abnormalities such as diabetes and obesity may be considered as an underlying risk that induces skin manifestation in a process of exposure to radiation.
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Zhang, P., Fu, WH. Reversible Localized Alopecia After Angioplasty of Basilar Artery Stenosis in a Diabetic Patient: a Case Report. SN Compr. Clin. Med. 2, 992–994 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42399-020-00354-5
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