Stroke-like presentation of acute toxic leukoencephalopathy due to capecitabine treatment with extensive intramyelinic edema

Chronic Dis Transl Med. 2023 Jun 8;9(3):258-262. doi: 10.1002/cdt3.72. eCollection 2023 Sep.

Julia Feige¹, Fritz Klausner², Johannes A R Pfaff², Eugen Trinka^{1

3

4}, Slaven Pikija¹, Mahdi Safdarian¹

¹ Department of Neurology, Neurocritical Care and Neurorehabilitation, Centre of Cognitive Neuroscience, Christian Doppler University Hospital Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Member of EpiCARE Salzburg Austria.
² Department of Neuroradiology, Christian Doppler University Hospital Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg Austria.
³ Neuroscience Institute, Christian-Doppler University Hospital Paracelsus Medical University, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience Salzburg Austria.
⁴ Institute of Public Health, Medical Decision-Making and HTA UMIT - Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology Hall in Tyrol Austria.

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Keywords: capecitabine; intramyelinic edema; leukoencephalopathy; stroke.