Mothball ingestion Causing Toxic Leukoencephalopathy
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NEJM -- Toxic Leukoencephalopathy
PubMed Citation Leukoencephalopathy is a structural alteration of cerebral white matter in which myelin suffers the most damage. Toxic leukoencephalopathy may be caused by exposure to a wide variety of agents, including cranial irradiation, therapeutic agents, drugs of abuse, and environmental toxins.1 Toxic leukoencephalopathy particularly involves white-matter tracts devoted to higher cerebra...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1943-7722,0002-9173
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/aqw162.008