Toluene optic neurotoxicity: Magnetic resonance imaging and pathologic features

Human Pathology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 295-298

  Gupta, Shelly R ^a   Palmer, Cheryl Ann ^b   Curé, Joel K ^b   Balos, Lucia L ^c   Lincoff, Norah S ^d   Kline, Lanning B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d JACOBS NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain biopsy; Demyelination; Optic neuropathy; Toluene

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FOLIC ACID; INTERFERON BETA SERINE; LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; THIAMINE; TOLUENE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BALANCE DISORDER; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING DISORDER; HEMATOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERCHLOREMIC ACIDOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PLASMAPHERESIS; REFLEX DISORDER; SCOTOMA; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPEECH DISORDER; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; SOLVENTS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TOLUENE; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 78751563051     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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