Quantitative assessment of cerebral atrophy during and after treatment in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 749-754

  Prassopoulos, Panos ^a   Cavouras, Dionisis ^b   Golfinopoulos, Sotiris ^c   Evlogias, Nikolaus ^c   Theodoropoulos, Vassilis ^c   Panagiotou, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; brain, infants and children; chemotherapy; computed tomography; subarachnoid space

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0030466054     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-199612000-00003     Document Type: Article

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