Leukoencephalopathy around a tumor cyst following intracystic methotrexate injection

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 68-71

  Yano, Tamami ^a,b   Sawaishi, Yukio ^a   Hirayama, Aya ^a   Takaku, Iwao ^a   Takada, Goro ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Dept Repro Devmtl Med Div P   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; GLYCEROL; METHOTREXATE; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN PERFUSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHOROID PLEXUS NEOPLASMS; CYSTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MYELIN SHEATH;

EID: 10944248534     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2004.06.018     Document Type: Article

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