Fatal pulmonary thromboembolism after a second course of high-dose chemotherapy with autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 400-403

  Kounami, Shinji ^a   Aoyagi, Noriyuki ^a   Nakayama, Keiko ^a   Yoshiyama, Megumi ^a   Boshi, H ^a   Sakiyama, Michiyo ^a   Takeuchi, Takeshi ^a   Yoshikawa, Norishige ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

High dose chemotherapy; Peripheral blood stem cell transplantation; Pulmonary thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; MACROSALB TC 99M; MELPHALAN; RANIMUSTINE; THIOTEPA; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; FATALITY; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; MALE; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0142054919     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3046.2003.00092.x     Document Type: Article

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