Acute motor and sensory axonal neuropathy in Burkitt-like lymphoma

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 494-498

  Wanschitz, Julia ^a   Dichtl, Wolfgang ^a   Budka, Herbert ^b   Löscher, Wolfgang N ^a   Boesch, Sylvia ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute quadriplegia; Axonal degeneration; Burkitt like lymphoma; Guillain Barr syndrome; Vincristine neurotoxicity

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DISTAL PARESTHESIA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LEUKOPENIA; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SENSORY NEUROPATHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; AXONS; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; QUADRIPLEGIA; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 33749423140     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20569     Document Type: Article

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