Chemotherapy-related posterior reversible leukoencephalopathy syndrome

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 163-169

  Bhatt, Archit ^a   Farooq, Muhammad U ^a   Majid, Arshad ^a   Kassab, Mounzer ^a  

^a East Lansing   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; GEMCITABINE; LORAZEPAM; PENTOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN;

ACUTE CONFUSION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LETHARGY; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACTILE STIMULATION; VERBALIZATION;

ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRAIN; CARBOPLATIN; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 62549150907     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro1045     Document Type: Article

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