Hand foot syndrome associated with standard dose cytarabine

Hand-foot syndrome, is a side effect of cytotoxic chemotherapy, causes erythema, dysthesias, swelling of palms and soles and sometimes blisters. Rarely, it may ulcerate. The most commonly used drug that frequently causes this reaction is 5-fluorouracil or its prodrug oral capecitabine. High dose cyt...

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Main Authors: Atul Sharma, Saphalta Baghmar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2013-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology
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Online Access:http://www.ijmpo.org/article.asp?issn=0971-5851;year=2013;volume=34;issue=4;spage=333;epage=333;aulast=Sharma
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description Hand-foot syndrome, is a side effect of cytotoxic chemotherapy, causes erythema, dysthesias, swelling of palms and soles and sometimes blisters. Rarely, it may ulcerate. The most commonly used drug that frequently causes this reaction is 5-fluorouracil or its prodrug oral capecitabine. High dose cytarabine is known to cause HFS. Here we report a case of HFS caused by standard dose cytarabine.
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spellingShingle Atul Sharma
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Hand foot syndrome associated with standard dose cytarabine
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Cytarabine
hand-foot syndrome
palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia
title Hand foot syndrome associated with standard dose cytarabine
title_full Hand foot syndrome associated with standard dose cytarabine
title_fullStr Hand foot syndrome associated with standard dose cytarabine
title_full_unstemmed Hand foot syndrome associated with standard dose cytarabine
title_short Hand foot syndrome associated with standard dose cytarabine
title_sort hand foot syndrome associated with standard dose cytarabine
topic Cytarabine
hand-foot syndrome
palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia
url http://www.ijmpo.org/article.asp?issn=0971-5851;year=2013;volume=34;issue=4;spage=333;epage=333;aulast=Sharma
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