Acute fatal myeloencephalopathy after co
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von der Weid, Nicholas X. ;de Crousaz, Henriette ;Beck, Daniel ;Deonna, Thierry
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Article
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1991
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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We report a case of a fatal toxic encephalomyelopathy in a 12-year-old girl due to prophylactic intrathecal injection of methotrexate and cytosine arabinoside, with a characteristic progressive symptomatology leading to death after 28 days. The location and type of neuropathological changes support