Severe encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, vegetative instability and neuropathy with 5-fluorouracil treatment - Pyrimidine degradation defect or beriberi?

Case Reports in Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 371-376

  Rosen, A ^a   Van Kuilenburg, A ^b   Assmann, B ^a   Kuhlen, M ^a   Borkhardt, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

5 FU; Beriberi; Pyrimidine degradation defect

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; BICARBONATE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PACLITAXEL; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; THIAMINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BERIBERI; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY TEMPERATURE DISORDER; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRAIN DISEASE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIOSIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NEUROPATHY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PARESTHESIA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYRADICULITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; PUPIL DISEASE; PYRIMIDINE DEGRADATION DEFECT; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SLURRED SPEECH; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; VISUAL DISORDER; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 80052766404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16626575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000328803     Document Type: Article

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