Treatment of cerebral Langerhans cell histiocytosis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-152

  Hund, Ernst ^a   Steiner, Hans Herbert ^a   Jansen, Olav ^a   Sieverts, Hauke ^a   Sohl, Gisela ^a   Essig, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; Cerebral; Complication; Histiocytosis; Intracranial; Langerhans cell; MRI; Neurologic

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; ETOPOSIDE; INTERFERON; LEVOTHYROXINE; MERCAPTOPURINE; PHENOBARBITAL; VINBLASTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; LANGERHANS CELL; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0032743877     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(99)00258-0     Document Type: Article

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