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Acute drop of platelets in metastatic colon cancer

Oxaliplatin is a platinum commonly used in the treatment of metastatic colon cancer. It can cause thrombocytopenia through different mechanism. Sudden isolated drop in platelets should raise the concern for oxaliplatin immune‐induced thrombocytopenia and abrupt discontinuation of the drug. Patients...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Ahmed‐Tarig, Gupta, Shweta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29152287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1210