Prophylactic treatment of known ifosfamide-induced encephalopathy for chemotherapy with high-dose ifosfamide?

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-207

  Kasper, Bernd ^a   Harter, Christoph ^a   Meissner, Julia ^a   Bellos, Frauke ^a   Krasniqi, Fatime ^a   Ho, Anthony D ^a   Egerer, Gerlinde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ewing sarcoma; High dose chemotherapy (HDCT); Ifosfamide induced encephalopathy; Peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT)

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; GLUCOSE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IFOSFAMIDE; METHYLENE BLUE; THIAMINE; TOPOTECAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPILEPTIC STATE; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDRATION; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG RESECTION; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY; TOXICITY;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHEMOPREVENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; RETREATMENT; SARCOMA, EWING'S; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 1642413456     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-003-0573-2     Document Type: Article

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