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Idiosyncratic Reaction with Cytokine Storm Associated with Oxaliplatin

Oxaliplatin or irinotecan with 5-fluorouracil form the chemotherapy backbone of any systemic treatment of colorectal cancer. We successfully treated an idiosyncratic reaction to oxaliplatin consisting of severe chills, vomiting, diarrhea, and fever in a patient with metastatic colon cancer.  

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Autor principal: Dembla, Vikas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27335720
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.615
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description Oxaliplatin or irinotecan with 5-fluorouracil form the chemotherapy backbone of any systemic treatment of colorectal cancer. We successfully treated an idiosyncratic reaction to oxaliplatin consisting of severe chills, vomiting, diarrhea, and fever in a patient with metastatic colon cancer.  
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spelling pubmed-49140672016-06-22 Idiosyncratic Reaction with Cytokine Storm Associated with Oxaliplatin Dembla, Vikas Cureus Oncology Oxaliplatin or irinotecan with 5-fluorouracil form the chemotherapy backbone of any systemic treatment of colorectal cancer. We successfully treated an idiosyncratic reaction to oxaliplatin consisting of severe chills, vomiting, diarrhea, and fever in a patient with metastatic colon cancer.   Cureus 2016-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4914067/ /pubmed/27335720 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.615 Text en Copyright © 2016, Dembla et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Idiosyncratic Reaction with Cytokine Storm Associated with Oxaliplatin
title Idiosyncratic Reaction with Cytokine Storm Associated with Oxaliplatin
title_full Idiosyncratic Reaction with Cytokine Storm Associated with Oxaliplatin
title_fullStr Idiosyncratic Reaction with Cytokine Storm Associated with Oxaliplatin
title_full_unstemmed Idiosyncratic Reaction with Cytokine Storm Associated with Oxaliplatin
title_short Idiosyncratic Reaction with Cytokine Storm Associated with Oxaliplatin
title_sort idiosyncratic reaction with cytokine storm associated with oxaliplatin
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27335720
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.615
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