Marchiafava-Bignami disease: Literature review and case report

Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-76

  Kohler, Christian G ^a,c   Ances, Beau M ^b   Coleman, A Rand ^a   Ragland, J Daniel ^a   Lazarev, Mark ^a   Gur, Ruben C ^a  

^a Department of Psychiatry   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN NECROSIS; CASE REPORT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMENTIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; MALE; MARCHIAFAVA BIGNAMI DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS;

ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ATROPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ETHANOL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0033977830     PISSN: 0894878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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