Toxic megacolon complicating chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukaemia.
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Toxic megacolon complicating chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukaemia.
A 43 year old woman in remission from acute myeloid leukaemia developed abdominal pain, severe melaena, diarrhoea and gram-negative septicaemia whilst severely pancytopenic following consolidation chemotherapy. Subsequently, serial abdominal X-rays showed a progressive toxic megacolon. Conservative management was attempted but, because of radiological evidence of increasing colonic dilatation a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.70.830.921