Cobalamin deficiency and subacute combined degeneration after nitrous oxide anesthesia: A case report

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 150-153

  Ahn, Sung C ^a   Brown, Allen W ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthetics, inhalation; Case report; Demyelinating diseases; Rehabilitation; Vitamin B 12 deficiency

Indexed keywords

COBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; NITROUS OXIDE; PYRIDOXINE;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; JOINT FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSTHESIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; SCREENING; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SKIN SENSATION; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; STROKE; SUBACUTE COMBINED DEGENERATION; TRUNK; URINE INCONTINENCE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; HUMANS; MALE; NITROUS OXIDE; QUADRIPLEGIA; URINARY INCONTINENCE; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 11444265915     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2004.01.019     Document Type: Article

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