A case of respiratory akathisia in a cancer patient: A case report

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-81

  Sunakawa, Yu ^a   Wada, Makoto ^a   Nishida, Tomomi ^a   Wada, Mei ^a   Araki, Kazuhiro ^a   Endo, Hisashi ^a   Nagashima, Fumio ^a   Ichikawa, Wataru ^a   Miya, Toshimichi ^a   Onishi, Hideki ^a   Narabayashi, Masaru ^a   Sasaki, Yasutsuna ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiemetic drug; Cancer; Respiratory akathisia

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; BIPERIDEN; PROCHLORPERAZINE;

AGED; AKATHISIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DYSPNEA; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; AKATHISIA, DRUG-INDUCED; ANTIEMETICS; BIPERIDEN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DYSPNEA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; PROCHLORPERAZINE;

EID: 39749145904     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951508000114     Document Type: Article

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