Tsukada T, Morita N, Ikeda T, Katayama N, Nishikawa M, Kobayashi T, Deguchi K, Shirakawa S
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan.
Jpn J Med. 1990 Jan-Feb;29(1):56-60. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine1962.29.56.
A 19-year-old man with common acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) developed necrotizing leukoencephalopathy (NL) after extensive chemotherapy and irradiation. Clinicians should exercise care in the treatment of leukemia, since chemotherapy has shown a trend of becoming more intensive, and the survival time of patients with leukemia is being extended.