Letters to the editor: Severe encephalopathy caused by intraparenchymal methotrexate instillation due to the design of the catheter [1]

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 491-492

  Gottschling, Sven ^a   Reinhard, Harald ^a   Meyer, Sascha ^a   Krenn, Thomas ^a   Graf, Norbert ^a   Strowitzki, Martin ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE;

BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CHOROID PLEXUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CATHETERIZATION; EQUIPMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY AND INTOXICATION;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CATHETERIZATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METHOTREXATE; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0642309911     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mpo.10117     Document Type: Letter

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