Portal Systemic Encephalopathy Presenting with Dressing and Constructional Apraxia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 419-423

  Kanda, Takeshi ^a   Nogawa, Shigeru ^a   Muramatsu, Kazuhiro ^a   Koto, Atsuo ^a   Fukuuchi, Yasuo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Constructional apraxia; Dressing apraxia; Hepatic encephalopathy; Local cerebral blood flow; MR angiography; Xenon enhanced CT

Indexed keywords

AGED; APRAXIA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

AGED; APRAXIAS; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0034183384     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.39.419     Document Type: Article

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