The clinical spectrum of alcoholic pellagra encephalopathy: A RETROSPECTIVE analysis OF 22 CASES studied pathologically

Brain

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 829-842

  Serdaru, Michel ^a   Hausser hauw, Chantal ^a   Laplane, Dominique ^a   Buge, André ^a   Castaigne, Paul ^a   Goulon, Maurice ^b   Lhermitte, François ^a   Hauw, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b RAYMOND POINCARÉ HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRIDOXINE; THIAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MALE; PELLAGRA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; CASE REPORT; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MYOCLONUS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PELLAGRA; PYRIDOXINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THIAMINE;

EID: 0023780252     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/111.4.829     Document Type: Article

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