Anaplastic astrocytoma presenting as reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome

Neurologist

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 311-313

  Yoshida, Tomokatsu ^a,b   Niwa, Fumitoshi ^b   Kimura, Satoshi ^a   Nakagawa, Masanori ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ayabe City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; MRI; Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome; SPECT; Status epileptics

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; FLUNITRAZEPAM; IOFETAMINE I 123; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CONVULSION; EPILEPTIC STATE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LOBECTOMY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSIBLE POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33751377758     PISSN: 10747931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nrl.0000250947.19679.51     Document Type: Article

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