Significant drug interaction: Phenytoin toxicity due to erlotinib

Lung Cancer

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 404-406

  Grenader, Tal ^a   Gipps, Maya ^a   Shavit, Linda ^a   Gabizon, Alberto ^a  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Drug interaction; Erlotinib; Non small cell lung cancer; Phenytoin

Indexed keywords

ERLOTINIB; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BALANCE DISORDER; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PHENYTOIN; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; QUINAZOLINES; SEIZURES;

EID: 34548009373     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2007.02.011     Document Type: Article

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