Tumor Lysis Syndrome in a Patient With Gastric Adenocarcinoma

• Main Authors: Prasanth Lingamaneni MD (Author), Parth Desai MD (Author), Madhu Mathew Vennikandam MD (Author), Krishna Moturi MD (Author), Anmol Baranwal MD (Author), Shweta Gupta MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is a severe metabolic complication that usually occurs in patients with aggressive tumors who undergo treatment with chemotherapy. Traditionally, it was mainly associated with hematologic malignancies. However, over the past 4 decades, there have been increasing reports of...