Intracerebral hemorrhage secondary to thrombocytopenia in a patient treated with temozolomide

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 741-742

  Sure, Durga ^a   Dunn, Ian ^b   Norden, Andrew ^c   Anderson, William S ^d  

^a Department of Neurosurgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracerebral hemorrhage; Myelotoxicity; Temozolomide; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IRINOTECAN; LOMUSTINE; TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ADULT; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DACARBAZINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FATAL OUTCOME; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; RECURRENCE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 77956188754     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2010.04.005     Document Type: Letter

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