Korean J Med.
2002 Jun;62(6):657-660.
A case of typhlitis developed after anticancer chemotherapy in a patient with solid tumor
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- 1Department of Internal Medicine, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea. cis@emc.eulji.ac.kr
- 2Department of Radiology, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea.
Abstract
- Typhlitis is a necrotizing enterocolitis of the cecum, ascending colon and terminal ileum. Typhlits has been reported in the severely neutropenic patients and likely results from a combination of neutropenia and defects in the bowel mucosa related to cytotoxic chemotherapy. This disease is most common in patients with leukemia who have undergone intensive myeloablative chemotherapy. Presumptive diagnostic criteria for typhlitis include fever, abdominal pain and tenderness, and radiologic evidence of right-sided colonic inflammation in patients with neutropenia. Recently, this disease is also reported in patients with solid tumor due to increasing challenges of high dose chemotherapy. We report a case of typhlitis developed in the circumstance of neutropenia induced by chemotherapy in a patient with malignant testicular tumor.
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