Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 900-901

  Abe, Kazuo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

And stroke like events (MELAS); Angiitis; Hodgkin's disease; Lactic acidosis; Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy; Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; TACROLIMUS;

BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MELAS SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVERSIBLE POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CONFUSION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY; KIDNEY DISEASES; SYNDROME;

EID: 8844271704     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.900     Document Type: Editorial

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