Fatal fludarabine-induced extensive bone marrow necrosis in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia [2]

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1835-1836

  Braester, Andrei ^a,b,e   Elmalah, Yrit ^c   Quitt, Miriam ^d  

^a Lin Medical Center   (Israel)

^b WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^c HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMBUCIL; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUDARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; PREDNISONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

AGED; ASEPTIC NECROSIS; B CELL LEUKEMIA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW NECROSIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HIP DISEASE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW DISEASES; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, B-CELL, CHRONIC; NECROSIS; VIDARABINE;

EID: 0141870092     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1042819031000111080     Document Type: Letter

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