Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome Following Correction of Hyponatremia

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 314, Issue 24, 1986, Pages 1535-1542

  Sterns, Richard H ^a,b   Riggs, Jack E ^a,b   Schochet, Sydney S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMYELINATION; DIAGNOSIS; ETIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY;

EID: 0022633817     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198606123142402     Document Type: Article

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