Late onset cyclosporine-induced cerebral blindness with abnormal SPECT imagings in a patient undergoing unrelated bone marrow transplantation

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 105-108

  Uoshima, N ^a   Karasuno, T ^a   Yagi, T ^a   Kawamoto, S ^a   Hasegawa, T ^a   Yasumi, M ^a   Murakami, M ^a   Teshima, H ^a   Nakamura, H ^a   Hiraoka, A ^a   Masaoka, T ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

BMT; Cerebral blindness; Cyclosporine; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VASOCONSTRICTION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0033939537     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1702467     Document Type: Article

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