Acute ischemia of the lower limb during chemotherapy for testicular cancer: A report of two cases

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 940-942

  Le Ho, Helene ^a   Vauleon, Elodie ^a   Boucher, Eveline ^a   Gedouin, Daniel ^a   Kerbrat, Pierre ^a,b   Raoul, Jean Luc ^a,b  

^a CENTRE EUGÈNE MARQUIS   (France)

^b European University in Brittany   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; EMBOLECTOMY; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; FIBRIN CLOT; FOGARTY CATHETER; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG ISCHEMIA; LETTER; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; ORCHIECTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEMINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70350701859     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860902759030     Document Type: Letter

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