Transient lesion in the splenium of the corpus callosum, possibly due to carbamazepine [2]

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 550-551

  Narita, Hiroyuki ^a   Odawara, Toshinari ^a   Kawanishi, Chiaki ^a   Kishida, Ikuko ^a   Iseki, Eizo ^a   Kosaka, Kenji ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; LEVOMEPROMAZINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; ANALGESIC AGENT ABUSE; ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DROWSINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JAPAN; LETTER; LEUKOPENIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRAINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER;

EID: 0141928097     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2003.01164.x     Document Type: Letter

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