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Ralf-Dieter Hofheinz1, Xuan-Duc Nguyen, Dieter Buchheidt

  • 1III. Medical Clinic, University Hospital Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Wiesbadener Strasse 7-11, 68167 Mannheim, Germany. ralf.hofheinz@med3.ma.uni-heidelberg.de

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology
|December 17, 2003
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Only two patients with adequately documented oxaliplatin-induced autoimmune haemolytic anaemia have previously been reported. We report here a third patient with an immune-haematological finding favouring a bispecific mechanism (immune-complex and penicillin type) of oxaliplatin-induced haemolysis.

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