Hand foot syndrome associated with standard dose cytarabine

Hand-foot syndrome, is a side effect of cytotoxic chemotherapy, causes erythema, dysthesias, swelling of palms and soles and sometimes blisters. Rarely, it may ulcerate. The most commonly used drug that frequently causes this reaction is 5-fluorouracil or its prodrug oral capecitabine. High dose cyt...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Atul, Baghmar, Saphalta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
Materias:
Images in Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3932608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24604970
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.125263
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Sumario:Hand-foot syndrome, is a side effect of cytotoxic chemotherapy, causes erythema, dysthesias, swelling of palms and soles and sometimes blisters. Rarely, it may ulcerate. The most commonly used drug that frequently causes this reaction is 5-fluorouracil or its prodrug oral capecitabine. High dose cytarabine is known to cause HFS. Here we report a case of HFS caused by standard dose cytarabine.

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