Metastatic lung cancer causing bowel perforations: Spontaneous or chemotherapy-related?

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 245-246

  Yuen, John S P ^a   Chow, Pierce K H ^a   Ahmed, Qasim ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Drug therapy; Lung neoplasm; Perforation intestine

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; GEMCITABINE; PACLITAXEL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LOBECTOMY; LOW TEMPERATURE; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ONSET AGE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESUSCITATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VOMITING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036215344     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-2197.2002.02236.x     Document Type: Article

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