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Fatal basilar artery thrombosis after chemotherapy for testicular cancer
C Doehn1, H Büttner, P Fornara
1Department of Urology, Medical University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany. doehn@medinf.mu-luebeck.de
Urologia Internationalis
|August 31, 2000
Abstract:
We report a 31-year-old patient with a pT3N2M1 seminoma who received cisplatin-based chemotherapy. During the second course of chemotherapy, the patient suffered a thrombosis of the basilar artery. He died 14 h after hospital admission. Cerebrovascular events related to cisplatin-based chemotherapy are rare, however, these potentially fatal events should be kept in mind when treating patients with testicular cancer.