Emergency treatment of life-threatening intrathecal methotrexate overdose

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 407-410

  Finkelstein, Yoram ^a   Zevin, Shoshana ^a   Heyd, Judith ^a   Bentur, Yedidiah ^b   Zigelman, Yehezkel ^c   Hersch, Moshe ^c  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

CSF exchange; Intrathecal methotrexate; Leucovorin; Neurotoxicity; Overdose

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; FOLINIC ACID; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG INTOXICATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRACHEOSTOMY; VENTILATOR; WEANING;

ADULT; ANTIDOTES; DEXAMETHASONE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; METHOTREXATE; OVERDOSE;

EID: 1442263110     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2003.10.004     Document Type: Article

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