Central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis in an infant associated with the treatment of craniopharyngioma - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 351-354

  Tsutsumi, Satoshi ^a   Yasumoto, Yukimasa ^a   Ito, Masanori ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Craniopharyngioma; Hyponatremia; Magnetic resonance imaging; Osmotic demyelination syndrome

Indexed keywords

AUTACOID; DESMOPRESSIN; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CYSTOSTOMY; DEMYELINATION; DETERIORATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EXTRAPONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEUROENDOSCOPY; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OSMOTIC DEMYELINATION SYNDROME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; THALAMUS;

BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FEVER; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYELINOLYSIS, CENTRAL PONTINE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; VASOPRESSINS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 50149118574     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.48.351     Document Type: Article

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