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Nerve Excitability Assessment in Chemotherapy-induced Neurotoxicity
Published on: April 26, 2012
[Neurological toxicity of colistine methane sulfonate, about a case (author's transl)]
Toxicological European Research. Recherche Europeenne En Toxicologie
|January 1, 1979
Abstract:
The authors report a case to call attention on a Neurological Accident happening in a patient with normal renal functions, after administration of a single and strong dose of Colistine. The authors report their case and make a review of the literature on the frequency of these isolated neurological (accidents) and their supposed (pathogenesis).
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