Anorexia nervosa with recurrent hypoglycemic coma and cerebral hemorrhage

Internal Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 560-563

  Yamada, Yuya ^a   Fushimi, Hisako ^a   Inoue, Toru ^a   Nishinaka, Kazuto ^a   Kameyama, Masakuni ^a  

^a SUMITOMO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; Malnutrition; Weber's syndrome

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; COMA; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; LIVER; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYNDROME;

ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; LIVER; RECURRENCE; SYNDROME;

EID: 0030179318     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.35.560     Document Type: Article

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