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CHEMOTHERAPY HAZARDS: ANTHRACYCLINE EXTRAVASATION INTO PLEURAL SPACE

Almendra, Alexandre; Falcão, Pedro; Moreira, Susana; Azevedo, Pilar

The extravasation of doxorubicin, a cytostatic from the anthracycline group, is a rare and feared complication of intravenous chemotherapy due to tissue toxicity of these drugs. We describe a case of a 64-year-old woman with breast cancer undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy with doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide using a tunneled central catheter. After a chemotherapy cycle, the patient developed cough, dyspnoea and...


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