Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Chetanya Malik

Publications

• Case Report
  Toxic Leucoencephalopathy Due to CHOP Therapy in a Patient with NonHodgkin’s Lymphoma
  Author(s): Chetanya Malik, Aditya Kutiyal, Sanjay Pandit, Sandeep Garg and Naresh GuptaChetanya Malik, Aditya Kutiyal, Sanjay Pandit, Sandeep Garg and Naresh Gupta
  
  Toxic leucoencephalopathy is damage to cerebral white matter due to exposure to cranial irradiation, environmental toxins, drugs of abuse and chemotherapeutic agents. It results in wide variety of clinical manifestations like personality change, inattention, memory loss, abulia, stupor, coma and death. It leads to white matter demyelination which is visible on T2 weighted MRI as hyperintensity. We report a rare case of a 14-year-old boy with large B cell lymphoma who developed toxic leucoencephalopathy due to exposure to CHOP regimen. .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7920.10001006

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