Neuromuscular disorders in acute leukemia and lymphoma treatment

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Different mechanisms of neuromuscular complications, their clinical presentation, methods of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment options are
presented. The material is presented according to the level of nervous system damage, with inclusion of different clinical entities. Authors reviewed
a wide range of disease – disease of the spinal cord, peripheral nerves and plexus, neuromuscular junction and muscle – as a result of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Systemic effects of drugs on peripheral nervous system, various departments of which can be simultaneously involved in the pathological process, were also highlighted.

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E. A. Politova

Dmitriy Rogachev Federal Research Centеr of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology,
Ministry of Health of Russia

Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia

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Email: nervine-polite@mail.ru
Department of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Medical Genetics Russian Federation

N. N. Zavadenko

Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia

Department of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Medical Genetics Russian Federation

Dmitriy Rogachev Federal Research Centеr of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology,
Ministry of Health of Russia

Russian Federation

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