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Posterior Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome

"Posterior Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A condition that is characterized by HEADACHE; SEIZURES; and visual loss with edema in the posterior aspects of the CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES, such as the BRAIN STEM. Generally, lesions involve the white matter (nerve fibers) but occasionally the grey matter (nerve cell bodies).


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Posterior Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Posterior Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 36 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2011 and 2018 and 2023
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.