Assessment of brain perfusion by 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT in akinetic mutism due to high-dose intravenous methotrexate therapy

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 560-562

  Karabacak, Nese Ilgin ^a,b   Ozturk, Gulyuz ^a   Gucuyener, Kivilcim ^a   Gokcora, Nahide ^a   Gursel, Turkiz ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Akinetic mutism; Central nervous system toxicity; Intravenous methotrexate

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; METHOTREXATE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; AKINETIC MUTISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AKINETIC MUTISM; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; METHOTREXATE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030725387     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050138     Document Type: Article

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