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Acute abdomen during adjuvant chemotherapy: superior mesenteric artery thrombosis associated with CMF chemotherapy
E M Sugden1, C L Griffiths, G I Greywoode
1Churchill Hospital, Oxford, Banbury, UK.
Clinical Oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
|February 5, 2002
Abstract:
We report a case of superior mesenteric artery thrombosis in a 57-year-old woman undergoing chemotherapy for T1N1M0, breast cancer. Although cancer itself is associated with an increased risk of thrombotic events, treatment with chemotherapy and/or tamoxifen in breast cancer patients increases this risk. Most cases reported are of venous thromboembolism; arterial events are rare.