Outpatient high-dose methotrexate: Proceed with extreme caution, if at all

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1250-1251

  Womer, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; METHOTREXATE;

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ASPERGILLOSIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; COST CONTROL; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; FEVER; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUTROPENIA; NOTE; OSTEOSARCOMA; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; OSTEOSARCOMA;

EID: 78049314268     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.22847     Document Type: Note

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