Reversible impairment of auditory callosal pathway in 5-fluorouracil- induced leukoencephalopathy: Parallel changes in function and imaging

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 716-719

  Fujimoto, Chisato ^a   Ito, Ken ^a   Iwasaki, Shinichi ^a   Nakao, Kazunari ^a   Sugasawa, Masashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 Fluorouracil; Auditory callosal pathway; Leukoencephalopathy; Reversible impairment

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; GLYCEROL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PIRARUBICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CHEMOTHERAPY; CONVULSION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DICHOTIC LISTENING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; IMAGING; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33746835004     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mao.0000194815.15298.8b     Document Type: Article

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