The confused cancer patient: A case of 5-fluorouracil-induced encephalopathy

Current Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 59-61

  Cheung, W Y ^a   Fralick, R A ^b   Cheng, Susanna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

5 fluorouracil; Chemotherapy; Colorectal carer; Complications; Oxaliplatin

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CREATINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAZEPAM; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; LACTULOSE; ONDANSETRON; OXALIPLATIN; PHENYTOIN; RALTITREXED;

ADULT; AGITATION; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DISEASE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; CONFUSION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; METABOLIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; REVIEW; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 68649088613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17187729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3747/co.v15i5.252     Document Type: Review

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