Gangrene of the fingertips after bleomycin and methotrexate

Cutis

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages

  Correia, Osvaldo ^a,b   Ribas, Fernando ^a   Azevedo, Rosa ^a   Rodrigues, Helena ^a   Delgado, Luis ^c  

^a PORTUGUESE ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^b Faculdade de Medicina   (Portugal)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; METHOTREXATE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CYANOSIS; FINGER; GANGRENE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHARYNX CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLEOMYCIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CYANOSIS; FINGERS; GANGRENE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034305267     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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