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. 1982 Oct;35(10):1086–1091. doi: 10.1136/jcp.35.10.1086

6-Thioguanine as a cause of toxic veno-occlusive disease of the liver

MB Satti 1,2,3, K Weinbren 1,2,3, EC Gordon-Smith 1,2,3
PMCID: PMC497888  PMID: 6957419

Abstract

Lesions of hepatic veno-occlusive disease were found in the needle biopsy specimen of one patient suffering from chronic granulocytic leukaemia and in the liver at necropsy of a second patient suffering from acute myeloid leukaemia. The treatment included administration of 6-thioguanine which was the only relevant compound used in the first patient and which was combined with cytosine arabinoside in the second patient.

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