Carbamazepine-responsive paroxysmal nausea and vomiting in a patient with meningeal carcinomatosis

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 549-550

  Strohscheer, Imke ^a   Borasio, Gian Domenico ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; DEXAMETHASONE; LEVOMEPROMAZINE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; SEROTONIN 3 ANTAGONIST;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER PATIENT; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOPHOBIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIEMETICS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARBAMAZEPINE; CARCINOMA; DRUG RESISTANCE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; NAUSEA; SYNDROME; VOMITING;

EID: 33746927608     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216306pm1161xx     Document Type: Article

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