Vindesine, a derivative of vinblastine, was administered to 39 patients with advanced colorectal cancer refractory to 5-fluorouracil alone or in combination with other chemotherapeutic agents. The initial dose of vindesine was 4 mg/m2 administered intravenously (IV) over 30 minutes every two weeks.
A 67-year-old man was admitted in October 1987 with complaints of nausea, headache, dizziness and speech disturbance. Hematological examination showed pancytopenia. Bone marrow aspiration failed with a dry tap. A month later, the second aspiration showed hypocellular marrow containing 18.2% of
We treated a patient with lung adenocarcinoma who responded to chemotherapy with vinorelbine (VNR) plus carboplatin (CBDCA) on an outpatient basis. The patient was a 68-year-old man. He visited a local physician complaining of wet coughing, headache and general fatigne. The symptoms remained
A 42-year-old male was diagnosed as having Ph-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) in 1988. He had been treated with ranimustine and interferon alpha. In April 1990, he was admitted to our hospital because of hemorrhagic diathesis. Blood counts revealed a white blood cell count of
A case of primary diffuse leptomeningeal melanoblastosis in a 46-year-old male is reported. His symptoms included headaches, transient hemiparesis, epileptic seizures and a progressive psychosyndrome. CT brain scans showed a slight enhancement of density in the subarachnoidal space. The disease was
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