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Minimally invasive treatment of chemotherapeutic extravasation

Dion Smyth

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Extravasation of chemotherapeutic agents is a serious adverse event with possibly severe local and systemic sequelae, including local and chronic tissue ulceration, or necrosis leading to loss of form or function and necessitating intervention such as plastic microsurgery.

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Extravasation of chemotherapeutic agents is a serious adverse event with possibly severe local and systemic sequelae, including local and chronic tissue ulceration, or necrosis leading to loss of form or function and necessitating intervention such as plastic microsurgery.

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Extravasation of chemotherapeutic agents is a serious adverse event with possibly severe local and systemic sequelae, including local and chronic tissue ulceration, or necrosis leading to loss of form or function and necessitating intervention such as plastic microsurgery.

Key concepts: Extravasation, Medicine, Tissue necrosis, Adverse effect, Necrosis, Surgery, Pathology, Internal medicine

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