Lung toxicity: Gemcitabine for NSCLC with brain metastasis;Toxicité pulmonaire de la gemcitabine dans le cadre d'un CPNPC avec carcinomatose cérébrale

Revue Medicale de Liege

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 123-126

  Mommens, V ^a,c   Bosquee, L ^a   D'Orio, V ^b  

^a Centre Hospitalier Regional de La Citadelle   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Corticosteroids; Gemcitabine; Lung toxicity; NSCLC

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GEMCITABINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TOXICITY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES;

EID: 0347298795     PISSN: 00353663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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