Chronic carbon disulfide encephalopathy

European Neurology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 364-368

  Huang, Chin Chang ^a   Chu, Chun Che ^a   Chen, Rou Shayn ^a   Lin, Shinn Kuang ^a   Shih, Tung Sheng ^b  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carbon disulfide polyneuropathy; Carotid duplex sonography; Computed tomography; Encephalopathy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neurotoxic disease

Indexed keywords

CARBON DISULFIDE;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AMNESIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DREAM; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NEURORADIOLOGY; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN DISEASES; CARBON DISULFIDE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0029809625     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: 14219913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000117294     Document Type: Article

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