Pyomyositis associated with chemotherapy for endometrial cancer: a case report

Pyomyositis is a rare complication of chemotherapy for non-hematological malignancies. A 58-year-old woman with endometrial carcinoma, in whom pyomyositis developed during adjuvant chemotherapy, was presented in this report. After initiating empiric antibiotic therapy for febrile neutrocytopenia, sc...

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Autores principales: Nakao, Yoshifumi, Yokoyama, Masatoshi, Nishiyama, Satoshi, Hashiguchi, Mariko, Aihara, Satomi, Yasunaga, Makio, Noguchi, Mitsuyo, Iwasaka, Tsuyoshi
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3598439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23442230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-45
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author Nakao, Yoshifumi
Yokoyama, Masatoshi
Nishiyama, Satoshi
Hashiguchi, Mariko
Aihara, Satomi
Yasunaga, Makio
Noguchi, Mitsuyo
Iwasaka, Tsuyoshi
author_facet Nakao, Yoshifumi
Yokoyama, Masatoshi
Nishiyama, Satoshi
Hashiguchi, Mariko
Aihara, Satomi
Yasunaga, Makio
Noguchi, Mitsuyo
Iwasaka, Tsuyoshi
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description Pyomyositis is a rare complication of chemotherapy for non-hematological malignancies. A 58-year-old woman with endometrial carcinoma, in whom pyomyositis developed during adjuvant chemotherapy, was presented in this report. After initiating empiric antibiotic therapy for febrile neutrocytopenia, screening CT showed multiple abscesses in the lower limbs. Operative drainage of the abscess was effective.
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spelling pubmed-35984392013-03-16 Pyomyositis associated with chemotherapy for endometrial cancer: a case report Nakao, Yoshifumi Yokoyama, Masatoshi Nishiyama, Satoshi Hashiguchi, Mariko Aihara, Satomi Yasunaga, Makio Noguchi, Mitsuyo Iwasaka, Tsuyoshi World J Surg Oncol Case Report Pyomyositis is a rare complication of chemotherapy for non-hematological malignancies. A 58-year-old woman with endometrial carcinoma, in whom pyomyositis developed during adjuvant chemotherapy, was presented in this report. After initiating empiric antibiotic therapy for febrile neutrocytopenia, screening CT showed multiple abscesses in the lower limbs. Operative drainage of the abscess was effective. BioMed Central 2013-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3598439/ /pubmed/23442230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-45 Text en Copyright ©2013 Nakao et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Nakao, Yoshifumi
Yokoyama, Masatoshi
Nishiyama, Satoshi
Hashiguchi, Mariko
Aihara, Satomi
Yasunaga, Makio
Noguchi, Mitsuyo
Iwasaka, Tsuyoshi
Pyomyositis associated with chemotherapy for endometrial cancer: a case report
title Pyomyositis associated with chemotherapy for endometrial cancer: a case report
title_full Pyomyositis associated with chemotherapy for endometrial cancer: a case report
title_fullStr Pyomyositis associated with chemotherapy for endometrial cancer: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Pyomyositis associated with chemotherapy for endometrial cancer: a case report
title_short Pyomyositis associated with chemotherapy for endometrial cancer: a case report
title_sort pyomyositis associated with chemotherapy for endometrial cancer: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3598439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23442230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-45
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