The spectrum of neuroimaging abnormalities in solvent abuse and their clinical correlation

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 167-173

  Caldemeyer, Karen S ^a   Armstrong, Sheri W ^a   George, Kristi K ^b   Moran, Catherine C ^a   Pascuzzi, Robert M ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOLUENE; GADOLINIUM; IRON; SOLVENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; THALAMUS; ATAXIA; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DYSMETRIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GLUE SNIFFING; HYPERREFLEXIA; KIDNEY TUBULE ACIDOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NYSTAGMUS; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RISK FACTOR; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREMOR; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER LESION;

EID: 0029790657     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jon199663167     Document Type: Article

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