Brain white matter changes during treatment of a child for acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Journal of Nippon Medical School

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 252-253

  Maeda, Miho ^a   Hayakawa, Jun ^a   Ueda, Takahiro ^a   Migita, Makoto ^a   Asano, Takeshi ^a   Fukunaga, Yoshitaka ^a   Amano, Yasuo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; HYDROCORTISONE; METHOTREXATE;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEMYELINATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESIS; STROKE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BRAIN; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHOTREXATE;

EID: 27544431948     PISSN: 13454676     EISSN: 13473409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1272/jnms.72.252     Document Type: Article

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