Alcoholic skeletal myopathy, a clinical and pathological study

QJM

Volumn 55, Issue 3-4, 1985, Pages 233-251

  Martin, F ^a   Ward, K ^a   Slavin, G ^a   Levi, J ^a   Peters, T J ^a  

^a MRC Clinical Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MUSCLE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE DISEASE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROPATHY; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RHABDOMYOLYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; CREATINE KINASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; MUSCULAR DISEASES; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 0021814114     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: 14602393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.qjmed.a067872     Document Type: Article

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