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Felicidade Trindade1, Rosario Haro, Maria Carmen Fariña
1Department of Dermatology, Hospital dos Capuchos, Lisbon, Portugal. felicidade.trindade@gmail.com
Abstract:
Capecitabine, a fluoropyrimidine carbamate with antineoplastic activity, is an oral agent that was developed as a prodrug of 5-fluorouracil and is used in the treatment of metastatic colorectal and breast cancers. Multiple cutaneous adverse effects had been described with the use of this drug, but to our knowledge, specific association with capecitabine and hand-foot syndrome with sclerodactyly-like changes has been described only once. We report a patient with a colon adenocarcinoma who presented with hand-foot syndrome, with sclerodactyly-like changes induced by capecitabine.
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