Neutropenic enterocolitis in lung cancer: A report of two cases and a review of the literature

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 467-470

  Furonaka, Makoto ^a   Miyazaki, Mitsuru ^a   Nakajima, Masamistu ^a   Hirata, Shintaro ^a   Fujitaka, Kazunori ^a   Kondo, Keiichi ^a   Yokoyama, Akihito ^a   Maeda, Hiroyuki ^a   Kohno, Nobuoki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Lung cancer; Neutropenic enterocolitis

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN III; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBOPLATIN; CEFEPIME; GABEXATE MESILATE; GEFITINIB; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MEROPENEM; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG FEVER; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE WALL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG CANCER; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPENIC ENTEROCOLITIS; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COLON; ENTEROCOLITIS, NEUTROPENIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 21244439916     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.467     Document Type: Article

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