Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

College/Unit

School of Medicine

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Not Listed

Abstract

Sunitinib is a chemotherapeutic agent that has been approved for renal cell carcinoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumors resistant to imatinib. It is usually well tolerated and severe gastrointestinal side effects are rare. There are very few reports of sunitinib causing severe esophagitis, and only one of them was previously reported as exfoliative esophagitis. We describe a case of severe sunitinib-induced exfoliative esophagitis that resulted in overt gastrointestinal bleed.

Source Citation

Gayam, S., & Anumandla, A. (2016). A Rare Case of Sunitinib-Induced Exfoliative Esophagitis. ACG Case Reports Journal, 3(1), e155. https://doi.org/10.14309/crj.2016.128

Comments

© 2016 Gayam et al. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0.

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