Issue: 2017 > March > photo quiz

Hyperpigmentation of the tongue in a patient receiving chemotherapy



PHOTO QUIZ
F. Tous-Romero, S. Burillo-Martínez, V. Velasco-Tamariz, L. Maroñas-Jiménez
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A 54-year-old Indian woman was seen due to hyperpigmented spots on the tongue, which began one month after starting treatment with capecitabine for metastatic breast cancer (figure 1). She had a similar episode five years earlier, which coincided with chemotherapy treatment with fluorouracil, doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide, given when the cancer was first diagnosed.


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