A case of Acute Methotrexate Toxicity

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 97-99

  Tan, Ki Wei ^a   Tay, Yong Kwang ^a  

^a CHANGI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BICARBONATE; FOLINIC ACID; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; METHOTREXATE; MINOCYCLINE; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHINESE; DEHYDRATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EROSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATINOCYTE; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIP DISEASE; MOUTH ULCER; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; PANCYTOPENIA; PSORIASIS; PSORIASIS VULGARIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN EROSION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VOMITING;

EID: 79952581858     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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