A case of Marchiafava-Bignami disease with complete recovery: Sequential imaging documenting improvement of callosal lesions

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 175-179

  Tobita, Muneshige ^a,b   Mochizuki, Hiroshi ^b   Takahashi, Shoki ^a   Onodera, Hiroshi ^a   Itoyama, Yasuto ^a   Iwasaki, Yuzo ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MIYAGI NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Corpus callosum; CT; Marchiafava Bignami disease; MRI

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA; REMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN INTAKE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 0030866416     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.182.175     Document Type: Article

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