Mesial temporal sclerosis in acute childhood leukemias

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 131-134

  Goyal, Monisha ^a   Bangert, Barbara A ^b   Wiznitzer, Max ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute childhood leukemias; Chemotherapy; Complex partial seizures; Cranial irradiation; Mesial temporal sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ASPARAGINASE; BUSULFAN; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GABAPENTIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LAMOTRIGINE; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; TIOGUANINE; TOPIRAMATE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GRAFT REJECTION; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCLEROSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SKULL IRRADIATION; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ATROPHY; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0038341650     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.20302.x     Document Type: Article

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