Pseudotumor Cerebri in a Patient with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia during Treatment with All-Trans Retinoic Acid

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 546-549

  Sano, Fumiaki ^a   Tsuji, Kazue ^a   Kunika, Norifumi ^a   Takeuchi, Toshio ^a   Oyama, Ken ^a   Hasegawa, Seiichi ^a   Koike, Mitsuru ^a   Takahashi, Masatomo ^a   Ishida, Masashi ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute leukemia; Drug induced intracranial hypertension; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; RETINOIC ACID;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAPILLEDEMA; RETINOL INTOXICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GLYCEROL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; TRETINOIN;

EID: 0031880354     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.546     Document Type: Article

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