A case of Sweet's syndrome following septic pulmonary emboli after high-dose chemotherapy for advanced testicular cancer

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 481-484

  Hara, Isao ^a   Miura, Tetsuya ^a   Yamanaka, Kazuki ^a   Tanaka, Kazushi ^a   Yamada, Yuji ^a   Fujisawa, Masato ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

High dose chemotherapy; Septic pulmonary emboli; Sweet's syndrome; Testicular cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IFOSFAMIDE; PACLITAXEL; PAZUFLOXACIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; ERYTHEMA; FACE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE REACTION; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; LOWER LEG; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ORCHIECTOMY; PAPULE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PERIPHERAL VEIN; PHLEBITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA; SEPSIS; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN NODULE; TESTIS CANCER; THIGH; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SEPSIS; SWEET'S SYNDROME; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33744784024     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: 14422042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2006.01332.x     Document Type: Article

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