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Acute stroke following cisplatin therapy
1Stroke Unit, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Hope Hospital, Salford, UK.
Clinical Oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
|October 9, 1998
Abstract:
Cisplatin is a very effective drug in modern chemotherapy practice. It has many side effects, including neurotoxicity, and has been tentatively implicated in acute stroke. We describe a 21-year-old woman who presented with an acute stroke, confirmed on MRI as a cerebral infarction.