Transient leukoencephalopathy after intrathecal methotrexate mimicking stroke

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 345-347

  Agarwal, Amit ^a   Vijay, Kanupriya ^a   Thamburaj, Krishnamoorthy ^a   Ouyang, Tao ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Methotrexate (MTX); Restricted diffusion; Stroke

Indexed keywords

FOLINIC ACID; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISORIENTATION; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LYMPHOBLASTOMA; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; STROKE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSIENT LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; METHOTREXATE; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; STROKE;

EID: 80052470598     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: 14381435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-010-0931-6     Document Type: Article

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