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Successful treatment with metronidazole and paromomycin for fulminant amoebic colitis during cytotoxic chemotherapy in a patient with small-cell lung cancer

We report the case of a 64-year-old man with advanced small-cell lung cancer who developed fulminant amoebic colitis during cytotoxic chemotherapy. During the first cycle of carboplatin/etoposide treatment, febrile neutropenia and grade 4 neutropenia developed. Because diarrhea, abdominal pain, and...

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Autores principales: Kitaoka, Aya, Tanimura, Kazuya, Yasuda, Yuto, Nishioka, Kensuke, Hirayama, Yutaka, Uemasu, Kiyoshi, Iwashima, Daisuke, Arita, Sou, Kitai, Toshiyuki, Hoshi, Susumu, Date, Emi, Iizuka, Norishige, Takahashi, Ken-ichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8605421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34840954
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01337