Journal article
UNEXPECTED MOBILISATION OF LEAD DURING CISPLATIN CHEMOTHERAPY
Abstract
During an investigation by X-ray fluorescence of platinum uptake in the kidney after chemotherapy with cisplatin, lead was found to have accumulated in the kidney in four subjects. The average kidney lead burden in one case exceeded 800 micrograms/g. Although two of the subjects had been occupationally exposed to lead, the other two had not. The tibia lead burden was also high in the two subjects in whom it was measured. The origins of this …
Authors
El-Sharkawi AM; Cobbold S; Evans CJ; Chettle DR; Morgan WD; Jaib MBM; Somervaille LJ; Scott MC
Journal
The Lancet, Vol. 328, No. 8501, pp. 249–250
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
August 1986
DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(86)92072-6
ISSN
0140-6736