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. 2020 May 8;10(1):7759.
doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-64805-8.

Paediatric computed tomography and subsequent risk of leukaemia, intracranial malignancy and lymphoma: a nationwide population-based cohort study

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Paediatric computed tomography and subsequent risk of leukaemia, intracranial malignancy and lymphoma: a nationwide population-based cohort study

I-Gung Li et al. Sci Rep. .

Abstract

Red bone marrow and brain tissue are highly radiosensitive in children. We investigate the relationship between childhood computed tomography (CT) exposure and leukaemia, intracranial malignancy and lymphoma. All participants in the study were aged less than 16 years. A total of 1,479 patients in the leukaemia group, 976 patients in the intracranial malignancy group and 301 patients in the lymphoma group were extracted from the Catastrophic Illness Certificate Database in Taiwan as the disease group. In total, 126,677 subjects were extracted from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2010 of the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database as the non-disease group. The odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for childhood CT exposure and times of childhood CT were estimated. Childhood CT exposure was correlated to the intracranial malignancy group in both one-year (OR = 1.95, 95% CI 1.40-2.71, p < 0.001) and two-year (OR = 1.56, 95% CI 1.04-2.33, p = 0.031) exclusion periods. The time of childhood CT was also correlated to intracranial malignancy in both one-year (OR = 1.69, 95% CI 1.34-2.13, p < 0.001) and two-year (OR = 1.55, 95% CI 1.17-2.04, p = 0.002) exclusion periods. The results indicated that childhood CT exposure was correlated with an increased risk of future intracranial malignancy.

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The authors declare no competing interests.

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Flowchart for selecting the study participants. Abbreviations: LHID = Longitudinal Health Insurance Database; CICD = Catastrophic Illness Certificate Database; ICD-9 = International Classification of Disease Ninth Revision.
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Study design. This figure shows the investigation of childhood CT exposure and times of childhood CT in case-control matched subjects. The index date was the disease diagnosis date in the disease group and the corresponding date in non-diseased group.

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