Small-cell cancers, and an unusual reaction to chemotherapy: Case 4. Fluorouracil-related small bowel vasculitis

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2442-2443

  Bucaloiu, Ion D ^a   Dubagunta, Srinivasan ^a   Pachipala, Krishna K ^a   Kamal, Nazmi ^a   Fata, Farid ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; OXALIPLATIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PLATINUM COMPLEX;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; AGED; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COLON BIOPSY; COLON CANCER; COLON MUCOSA; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEAKNESS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COLON TUMOR; ILEUM DISEASE; VASCULITIS;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; ORGANOPLATINUM COMPOUNDS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0038149399     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2003.11.055     Document Type: Article

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