Magnetic resonance relaxometry reveals central pontine abnormalities in clinically asymptomatic alcoholic men

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1206-1212

  Sullivan, Edith V ^a   Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Fluency; MRI; Nutrition; Pons

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0034864369     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2001.tb02337.x     Document Type: Article

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