Neuromuscular Complications of Cancer and Cancer Treatments

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-45

  Custodio, Christian M ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIAMINOPYRIDINE; BORTEZOMIB; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTARABINE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; NAVELBINE; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; THALIDOMIDE; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; BLADDER CANCER; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHONDROSARCOMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON CANCER; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; EATON LAMBERT SYNDROME; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MELANOMA; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; METABOLIC DISORDER; MONONEUROPATHY; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYOKYMIA; MYOPATHY; NEOPLASM; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; ONCOLOGY; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSICAL MEDICINE; PLASMA CELL DYSCRASIA; PLEXOPATHY; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR POLYNEUROPATHY; SENSORY NEURONOPATHY; SPINE METASTASIS; STIFF MAN SYNDROME; STOMACH CANCER; TESTIS CANCER; THYROID CANCER; VASCULITIC NEUROPATHY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION INJURIES;

EID: 38049020905     PISSN: 10479651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmr.2007.10.001     Document Type: Review

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