Cerebrovascular accident during cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy of testicular germ cell tumor: An unusual case report

Anti-Cancer Drugs

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 97-98

  Azak, Alper ^a,b   Öksüzoǧlu, Berna ^a   Deren, Taǧmaç ^a   Öneç, Birgül Müftüoǧlu ^a   Zengin, Nurullah ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular accident; Cisplatin; Nonseminomatous germ cell tumor; Vascular toxicity

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; GEMCITABINE; PACLITAXEL; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; EDEMA; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FRONTAL CORTEX; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORCHIECTOMY; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; STEROID THERAPY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TESTIS CANCER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CISPLATIN; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; STROKE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36549079677     PISSN: 09594973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CAD.0b013e3282f0777e     Document Type: Article

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