Palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia associated with capecitabine chemotherapy: a case report

We report a case of a 62 year-old patient who developed Palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia upon receiving four cycles of capacitabine-based chemotherapy. She was on post surgical adjuvant treatment for invasive well differentiated adenocarcinoma of the colon. The clinical and therapeutic aspects of t...

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Autores principales: Kigen, Gabriel, Busakhala, Naftali, Njiru, Evangeline, Chite, Fredrick, Loehrer, Patrick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4607982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26523170
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.21.228.7525
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author Kigen, Gabriel
Busakhala, Naftali
Njiru, Evangeline
Chite, Fredrick
Loehrer, Patrick
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description We report a case of a 62 year-old patient who developed Palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia upon receiving four cycles of capacitabine-based chemotherapy. She was on post surgical adjuvant treatment for invasive well differentiated adenocarcinoma of the colon. The clinical and therapeutic aspects of this chemotherapeutic adverse effect are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-46079822015-10-30 Palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia associated with capecitabine chemotherapy: a case report Kigen, Gabriel Busakhala, Naftali Njiru, Evangeline Chite, Fredrick Loehrer, Patrick Pan Afr Med J Case Report We report a case of a 62 year-old patient who developed Palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia upon receiving four cycles of capacitabine-based chemotherapy. She was on post surgical adjuvant treatment for invasive well differentiated adenocarcinoma of the colon. The clinical and therapeutic aspects of this chemotherapeutic adverse effect are discussed. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4607982/ /pubmed/26523170 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.21.228.7525 Text en © Gabriel Kigen et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Busakhala, Naftali
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Chite, Fredrick
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Palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia associated with capecitabine chemotherapy: a case report
title Palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia associated with capecitabine chemotherapy: a case report
title_full Palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia associated with capecitabine chemotherapy: a case report
title_fullStr Palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia associated with capecitabine chemotherapy: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia associated with capecitabine chemotherapy: a case report
title_short Palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia associated with capecitabine chemotherapy: a case report
title_sort palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia associated with capecitabine chemotherapy: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4607982/
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