Toxic epidermal injury following intraarterial adriamycin treatment

✍ Scribed by Finn Edler Von Eyben; Magnus Bruze; Staffan Eksborg; Willy Mattsson; Kjell Jonsson

• Book ID: 101325898
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 370 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19811001)48:7<1535::aid-cncr2820480712>3.0.co;2-q

✦ Synopsis

Toxic epidermal injury was induced in the right forearm and thumb of a 74-year-old woman following two courses of 28 rnglm' Adriamycin infused in the brachial artery with a three-week interval. The toxic epidermal injury was treated with a wet dressing solution a n d a neomycin cream without corticoids; it healed in one month. Afterwards the woman received 22 courses of Adriamycin intravenously or intraarterially in 5.5 or 11 mg/m2 doses, but the toxic epidermal injury did not recur.