Systemic inflammation in a melanoma patient treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors-an autopsy study

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Koelzer, Viktor H ^a,b   Rothschild, Sacha I ^c   Zihler, Deborah ^a   Wicki, Andreas ^c   Willi, Berenika ^a   Willi, Niels ^a   Voegeli, Michèle ^a   Cathomas, Gieri ^a   Zippelius, Alfred ^c   Mertz, Kirsten D ^a  

^a Kantonsspital Liestal   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anti tumor T cell response; Antibody; Autoimmunity; Autopsy; Immune checkpoint inhibitors; Immunotherapy; Ipilimumab; Melanoma; Nivolumab

Indexed keywords

CHECKPOINT KINASE INHIBITOR; DACARBAZINE; IPILIMUMAB; NIVOLUMAB; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MELANOMA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYOCARDITIS; NEUTROPHILIA; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84997418743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20511426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40425-016-0117-1     Document Type: Article

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