Pharmacokinetics following intraventricular administration of chemotherapy in patients with neoplastic meningitis

Clinical Pharmacokinetics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-31

  Fleischhack, Gudrun ^a   Jaehde, Ulrich ^a   Bode, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE G2; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAZIQUONE; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); ETOPOSIDE; FOLINATE CALCIUM; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUTAMIC ACID; LIVER ENZYME; MAFOSFAMIDE; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 3; NIMUSTINE; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER; PENTETATE INDIUM IN 111; PREDNISOLONE; PURINE; TETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; THIOTEPA; THYMIDINE PHOSPHATE; TOPOTECAN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ARACHNOIDITIS; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DISPOSITION; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG METABOLISM; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEUKEMIC MENINGITIS; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MENINGITIS; METASTASIS; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; REVIEW; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE;

EID: 11844255631     PISSN: 03125963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003088-200544010-00001     Document Type: Review

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