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Cardiac perforation associated with continuous infusional chemotherapy
R A Cooper1, R D James, K J Taylor
1Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK.
Clinical Oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
The case history is reported of a 51-year-old man with metastatic colonic carcinoma who was receiving a continuous 5-fluorouracil infusion via a central venous catheter and who developed cardiac perforation and pericardial effusion. This complication has not previously been reported in association with continuous chemotherapy infusion.