A rectovaginal fistula after treatment with bevacizumab. A dangerous side effect needing emergency treatment

Despite its effectiveness in the treatment of malignant tumors, bevacizumab is associated with a variety of side effects such as the formation of fistulas (i.e., tracheoesophageal, colovaginal, or rectovaginal). It is important to recognize immediately the emergence of this entity in order to discon...

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Autores principales: Galanopoulos, Michail, Ladias, Spyridon, Tzannetakou, Xanthippi, Tsigaridas, Athanasios, Sarafis, Alexandros, Liatsos, Christos, Kalafatis, Evangelos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4831405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27099749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.523
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author Galanopoulos, Michail
Ladias, Spyridon
Tzannetakou, Xanthippi
Tsigaridas, Athanasios
Sarafis, Alexandros
Liatsos, Christos
Kalafatis, Evangelos
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Ladias, Spyridon
Tzannetakou, Xanthippi
Tsigaridas, Athanasios
Sarafis, Alexandros
Liatsos, Christos
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description Despite its effectiveness in the treatment of malignant tumors, bevacizumab is associated with a variety of side effects such as the formation of fistulas (i.e., tracheoesophageal, colovaginal, or rectovaginal). It is important to recognize immediately the emergence of this entity in order to discontinue bevacizumab permanently and treat the fistula.
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spelling pubmed-48314052016-04-20 A rectovaginal fistula after treatment with bevacizumab. A dangerous side effect needing emergency treatment Galanopoulos, Michail Ladias, Spyridon Tzannetakou, Xanthippi Tsigaridas, Athanasios Sarafis, Alexandros Liatsos, Christos Kalafatis, Evangelos Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Despite its effectiveness in the treatment of malignant tumors, bevacizumab is associated with a variety of side effects such as the formation of fistulas (i.e., tracheoesophageal, colovaginal, or rectovaginal). It is important to recognize immediately the emergence of this entity in order to discontinue bevacizumab permanently and treat the fistula. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4831405/ /pubmed/27099749 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.523 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Galanopoulos, Michail
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Tsigaridas, Athanasios
Sarafis, Alexandros
Liatsos, Christos
Kalafatis, Evangelos
A rectovaginal fistula after treatment with bevacizumab. A dangerous side effect needing emergency treatment
title A rectovaginal fistula after treatment with bevacizumab. A dangerous side effect needing emergency treatment
title_full A rectovaginal fistula after treatment with bevacizumab. A dangerous side effect needing emergency treatment
title_fullStr A rectovaginal fistula after treatment with bevacizumab. A dangerous side effect needing emergency treatment
title_full_unstemmed A rectovaginal fistula after treatment with bevacizumab. A dangerous side effect needing emergency treatment
title_short A rectovaginal fistula after treatment with bevacizumab. A dangerous side effect needing emergency treatment
title_sort rectovaginal fistula after treatment with bevacizumab. a dangerous side effect needing emergency treatment
topic Clinical Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4831405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27099749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.523
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