2,101
Views
4
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Differentiating hand-foot syndrome from tinea in patients receiving chemotherapy

, &
Pages 1061-1064 | Received 04 Feb 2016, Accepted 14 Feb 2016, Published online: 16 May 2016

References

  • Nagore E, Insa A, Sanmartin O. Antineoplastic therapy-induced palmar plantar erythrodysesthesia ('hand-foot') syndrome. Incidence, recognition and management. Am J Clin Dermatol 2000;1:225–34.
  • Scheithauer W, Blum J. Coming to grips with hand-foot syndrome. Insights from clinical trials evaluating capecitabine. Oncology (Williston Park) 2004;18:1161–8.
  • Blum JL, Jones SE, Buzdar AU, LoRusso PM, Kuter I, Vogel C, et al. Multicenter phase II study of capecitabine in paclitaxel-refractory metastatic breast cancer. J Clin Oncol 1999;17:485–93.
  • Chiara S, Nobile MT, Barzacchi C, Sanguineti O, Vincenti M, Di Somma C, et al. Hand-foot syndrome induced by high-dose, short-term, continuous 5-fluorouracil infusion. Eur J Cancer 1997;33:967–9.
  • Crawford JH, Eikelboom JW, McQuillan A. Recurrent palmar-plantar erythrodysaesthesia following high-dose cytarabine treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Eur J Haematol 2002;69:315–17.
  • Lyass O, Uziely B, Ben-Yosef R, Tzemach D, Heshing NI, Lotem M, et al. Correlation of toxicity with pharmacokinetics of pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (Doxil) in metastatic breast carcinoma. Cancer 2000;89:1037–47.
  • Park YH, Ryoo BY, Lee HJ, Kim SA, Chung JH. High incidence of severe hand-foot syndrome during capecitabine-docetaxel combination chemotherapy. Ann Oncol 2003;14:1691–2.
  • Zimmerman GC, Keeling JH, Burris HA, Cook G, Irvin R, Kuhn J, et al. Acute cutaneous reactions to docetaxel, a new chemotherapeutic agent. Arch Dermatol 1995;131:202–6.
  • Abaid LN, Rettenmaier MA, Brown JV III, Micha JP, Mendivil AA, Wabe MA, et al. Sequential chemotherapy and radiotherapy as sandwich therapy for the treatment of high risk endometrial cancer. J Gynecol Oncol 2012;23:22–7.
  • Zuehlke RL. Erythematous eruption of the palms and soles associated with mitotane therapy. Dermatologica 1974;148:90–2.
  • Clark AS, Vahdat LT. Chemotherapy-induced palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia syndrome: etiology and emerging therapies. Support Cancer Ther 2004;1:213–18.
  • Lipworth AD, Robert C, Zhu AX. Hand-foot syndrome (hand-foot skin reaction, palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia): focus on sorafenib and sunitinib. Oncology 2009;77:257–71.
  • Hainer BL. Dermatophyte infections. Am Fam Physician 2003;67:101–8.
  • Havlickova B, Czaika VA, Friedrich M. Epidemiological trends in skin mycoses worldwide. Mycoses 2008;51 Suppl:2–15.
  • Crawford F, Hollis S. Topical treatments for fungal infections of the skin and nails of the foot. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2007;CD001434.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.