necrotizing leukoencephalopathy

necrotizing leukoencephalopathy
a complication sometimes seen after injection of methotrexate intrathecally to treat childhood leukemia of the central nervous system; symptoms include necrosis of white matter of the brain, sometimes with stupor and quadriplegia, and frequently with permanent learning disabilities.

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