Clinical and radiologic features of pediatric opioid use-associated neurotoxicity with cerebellar edema (POUNCE) syndrome

Neurology. 2020 Apr 21;94(16):710-712. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000009293. Epub 2020 Mar 20.

Authors

David Dongkyung Kim¹, Asuri Narayan Prasad²

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences (D.D.K., A.N.P.), Western University, London, ON, Canada; and Division of Paediatric Neurology (A.N.P.), Department of Pediatrics, Western University, London, ON, Canada. David.kim@medportal.ca.
² From the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences (D.D.K., A.N.P.), Western University, London, ON, Canada; and Division of Paediatric Neurology (A.N.P.), Department of Pediatrics, Western University, London, ON, Canada.

PMID: 32198237
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000009293

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid / poisoning*
Ataxia / physiopathology
Blindness, Cortical / physiopathology
Brain Edema / chemically induced
Brain Edema / diagnostic imaging*
Brain Edema / physiopathology
Cerebellar Ataxia / physiopathology
Cerebellum / diagnostic imaging*
Craniotomy
Drug Overdose / diagnostic imaging*
Drug Overdose / physiopathology
Humans
Hypospadias / surgery
Infant
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Morphine / poisoning*
Neurotoxicity Syndromes / diagnostic imaging*
Neurotoxicity Syndromes / etiology
Neurotoxicity Syndromes / physiopathology
Occipital Lobe / diagnostic imaging*
Pain, Postoperative / drug therapy*
Syndrome

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid
Morphine