Gemcitabine-associated posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: MR imaging and MR spectroscopy findings

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 129-132

  Russell, Mai T ^a   Nassif, A Sami ^a   Cacayorin, Edwin D ^a   Awwad, Eric ^a   Perman, William ^a   Dunphy, Frank ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging sequence (DWI); Fluid attenuated inversion recovery sequence (FLAIR); Gemcitabine; MR spectroscopy (MRS); Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES)

Indexed keywords

GEMCITABINE; LACTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME;

EID: 0035062522     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(01)00217-X     Document Type: Article

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