Extensive pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum and surgical emphysema as a complication of bleomycin therapy

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1227-1229

  Jain, Tarun P ^a   Thulkar, Sanjay ^a   Saha, Sanchita ^a   Bakhshi, Sameer ^a   Dominic, Joseph ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Bleomycin; Child; Pneumomediastinum; Pulmonary toxicity

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; OXYGEN; VINBLASTINE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BOY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; CYANOSIS; DEATH; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG FEVER; DYSPNEA; EMPHYSEMA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PALLOR; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WHEEZING;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BLEOMYCIN; CHILD; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DYSPNEA; EMPHYSEMA; FATAL OUTCOME; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL EMPHYSEMA; PNEUMOTHORAX;

EID: 29244459756     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-005-1555-y     Document Type: Article

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