Successful recovery from interstitial pneumonitis, induced by bicalutamide and leuprorelin acetate given as treatment for prostate cancer

Acta Urologica Japonica

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 211-214

  Shioi, Koichi ^a   Sakai, Naoki ^a   Yoshida, Minoru ^a   Nakamura, Masafumi ^a  

^a YOKOSUKA KYOSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interstitial pneumonitis; Maximal androgen blockade therapy; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

BICALUTAMIDE; LEUPRORELIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; STEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROSTATE CANCER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANILIDES; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BONE NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LEUPROLIDE; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE HEMISUCCINATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 17644383975     PISSN: 00181994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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