Gastroparesis associated with high-dose cytosine arabinoside

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 143-144

  To, T ^a   Coghlan, D ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CYTARABINE; DOMPERIDONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; IDARUBICIN; METOCLOPRAMIDE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ATAXIA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MYELOBLAST; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; NOSE FEEDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLURRED SPEECH; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH PARESIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; VOMITING;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CYTARABINE; FEMALE; GASTROPARESIS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOMONOCYTIC, ACUTE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 39149137239     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2007.01605.x     Document Type: Letter

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