Vitamin B12 deficiency presenting with an acute reversible extrapyramidal syndrome

Neurology India

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 507-509

  Kumar, Sudhir ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Acute extrapyramidal syndrome; Neuropsychiatric manifestations; Parkinsonism; Vitamin B12

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INJECTION; MALE; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; PARKINSONISM; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 12144284974     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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