Fatal consequences of a simple mistake: How can a patient be saved from inadvertent intrathecal vincristine?

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 68-71

  Reddy, G Kesava ^a   Brown, Benjamin ^a   Nanda, Anil ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Fresh frozen plasma; Neurotoxicity; Spinal cord; Ventricular system

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; FOLINIC ACID; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; PYRIDOXINE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAVAGE; MEDICAL ERROR; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESUSCITATION;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL ERRORS; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 78650524088     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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