A growing number of drugs, including a number of alkylating agents, have been implicated as the cause of pulmonary diseases. A patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia presented with typical cytology, biopsy, and roentgenologic findings of lung toxicity after only six weeks of therapy with busulfan. There was subsequent clearing. A similar roentgenologic change also occurred after administrati...

Talpaz and Sante Tura Charles Bennett, John M. Goldman, Francois Guilhot, Hagop M. Kantarjian, Alan E. Lichtin, Moshe Richard T. Silver, Steven H. Woolf, Rüdiger Hehlmann, Frederick R. Appelbaum, James Anderson, American Society of Hematology, December 5, 1998, Miami Beach, FL. Society of Hematology : Presented in part at the Education Session of the Chronic Phase of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: D...