"Crack lung and heart" presenting after chemotherapy in a 65-year-old man with non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Current Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-65

  Alvarez, Gonzalo G ^a   van der Jagt, Richard H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

"Crack lung"; Cocaine; Non Hodgkin lymphoma

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COCAINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT; VINCRISTINE; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANASARCA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DYSPNEA; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; REHABILITATION CARE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN THROMBOSIS; WHEEZING;

EID: 51649092794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17187729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3747/co.2008.202     Document Type: Article

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