Diffuse white matter lesions in carbon disulfide intoxication: Microangiopathy or demyelination

European Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 220-224

  Ku, Mei Chuan ^a   Huang, Chin Chang ^a   Kuo, Hung Chou ^a   Yen, Tzu Chen ^a   Chen, Chi Jen ^a   Shih, Tung Sheng ^b   Chang, Ho Yuan ^c  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b Institute of Occupational Safety and Health   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carbon disulfide; Demyelination; Dopamine transporter; Magnetic resonance imaging; Microangiopathy; Neurotoxic disease; TRODAT 1 single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

CARBON DISULFIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MICROANGIOPATHY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CARBON DISULFIDE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISONING; TIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0344629390     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000073863     Document Type: Article

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