Summary
A 2-year-old boy developed the Fanconi syndrome 1 year after being treated successfully for a neuroblastoma. This is probably an unusual complication of ifosfamide.
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Moncrieff, M., Foot, A. Fanconi syndrome after ifosfamide. Cancer Chemother. Pharmacol. 23, 121–122 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00273531
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