Leukocytoclastic vasculitis during treatment with the oral EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor erlotinib [3]

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1582-1583

  Boeck, Stefan ^a   Wollenberg, A ^a   Heinemann, V ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CAPECITABINE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR KINASE INHIBITOR; ERLOTINIB; FIBRINOGEN; GEMCITABINE; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ALLERGIC VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEMIHEPATECTOMY; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPURA; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN NECROSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; QUINAZOLINES; VASCULITIS, HYPERSENSITIVITY;

EID: 34548395965     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdm420     Document Type: Letter

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