A Case of Spontaneous Tumor Lysis Syndrome in a Patient with Ovarian Cancer

• Main Authors: Kazuhiro Okamoto (Author), Toshifumi Kinoshita (Author), Miyuki Shimizu (Author), Isoji Okura (Author), Akinori Kawada (Author), Koichi Mizobuchi (Author), Midori Ando (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is a potentially life-threating complication of tumors or chemotherapy treatment. TLS commonly occurs in hematological malignancies, but it is very rare in patients with a solid tumor. In cases of solid tumors, TLS usually occurs spontaneously and after the initiation of a...