Acute pericarditis and pleural effusion complicating cytarabine chemotherapy

Onkologie

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 348-350

  Gähler, Anita ^a,b   Hitz, F ^a   Hess, U ^a   Cerny, T ^a  

^a Kantonsspital   (Switzerland)

^b CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute leukemia; Cytarabine; Pericarditis; Pleural effusion

Indexed keywords

CEFEPIME; CYTARABINE; ETOPOSIDE; IDARUBICIN; MITOXANTRONE;

ACUTE MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEVER; HUMAN; MALE; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURISY; THORACOCENTESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CYTARABINE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOMONOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDITIS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RECURRENCE;

EID: 17444447402     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072094     Document Type: Article

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