Lennox-Gastaut syndrome associated with leukoencephalopathy

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-65

  Mitsufuji, Nobuto ^a   Ikuta, Haruyasu ^a   Yoshioka, Hiroshi ^b   Sawada, Tadashi ^b  

^a KYOTO FIRST RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; VINCRISTINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DOXORUBICIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC SEIZURE; ABSENCE; ADOLESCENT; CALCINOSIS; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; DEMENTIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; INTRASPINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; RADIATION INJURY; SKULL IRRADIATION; SYNDROME;

6-MERCAPTOPURINE; ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CALCINOSIS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; CYTARABINE; DEMENTIA; DOXORUBICIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PREDNISOLONE; RADIATION INJURIES; SYNDROME; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0030176619     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0887-8994(96)00091-4     Document Type: Article

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