just thought this was interesting.

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a child developed neurologic toxicity from arabinoside, a treatment

for myelogenous leukemia.

and rapidly improved after flushing out of cerebral spinal fluid,

suggesting that it could be a treatment in the acute phase of toxicity.

efficacy of this treatment could be explained by reducing cytosine

arabinoside metabolites in the central nervous system.

just wondering if this flushing of cbs fluid would help with other

toxin exposures that effect the cns.

abstract.

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