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. 1972 Sep;27(5):640–642. doi: 10.1136/thx.27.5.640

Inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion in oat-cell carcinoma of bronchus

Aggravation of hyponatraemia by intravenous cyclophosphamide

A H G Munro 1,2, G K Crompton 1,2,1
PMCID: PMC470578  PMID: 4343447

Abstract

A patient with hyponatraemia associated with an oat-cell carcinoma of the bronchus is described. Treatment with intermittent large doses of cyclophosphamide intensified the hyponatraemia. An explanation of this previously undescribed phenomenon is suggested.

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