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Gefitinib successfully administered in a lung cancer patient with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis after erlotinib-induced pneumatosis intestinalis

BACKGROUND: Pneumatosis intestinalis (PI) is a rare complication of chemotherapy, characterized by multiple gas accumulations within the bowel wall. CASE PRESENTATION: A 71-year-old woman with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation-positive lung adenocarcinoma was admitted to our hospital...

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Autores principales: Uruga, Hironori, Moriguchi, Shuhei, Takahashi, Yui, Ogawa, Kazumasa, Murase, Kyoko, Mochizuki, Sayaka, Hanada, Shigeo, Takaya, Hisashi, Miyamoto, Atsushi, Morokawa, Nasa, Kishi, Kazuma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6097412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30115025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-018-4743-5