Persistent hair growth during treatment with the EGFR inhibitor erlotinib

Dermatology Online Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Alexandrescu, Doru T ^a   Kauffman, C Lisa ^a   Dasanu, Constantin A ^b  

^a Georgetown Dermatology   (United States)

^b SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERLOTINIB; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; EGFR PROTEIN, HUMAN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; QUINAZOLINE DERIVATIVE; TUMOR PROTEIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAIR DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PAPULOPUSTULAR ERUPTION; PARONYCHIA; RASH; SKIN CARE; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; TRICHOMEGALY; ADENOCARCINOMA; BONE TUMOR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; EYELASH; HAIR; HAIR COLOR; HYPERTRICHOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; REMISSION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BONE NEOPLASMS; EYELASHES; FEMALE; HAIR; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; HYPERTRICHOSIS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PARONYCHIA; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; QUINAZOLINES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 65249186765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10872108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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