Clinical features of encephalopathy in children with cancer requiring cranial magnetic resonance imaging

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 433-438

  Lim, Yeon Jung ^a   Kim, Hyung Jin ^b   Lee, Young Jun ^b   Seol, In Joon ^b   Lee, Young Ho ^b  

^a Chungnam National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ASPARAGINASE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOSPORIN; DOXORUBICIN; METHOTREXATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; THIAMINE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; APPETITE DISORDER; ARACHNOIDITIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INJURY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSARTHRIA; GERM CELL TUMOR; GRAY MATTER; HEADACHE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NAUSEA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOSARCOMA; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; VOMITING; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASMS; POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 79955811452     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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