Neuropsychological-neurophysiological alterations and brain atrophy in cirrhotic patients

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-78

  Amodio, P ^a,b   Pellegrini, A ^a   Amista P ^a   Luise, S ^a   Del Piccolo, F ^a   Mapelli, D ^a   Montagnese, S ^a   Musto, C ^a   Valenti, P ^a   Gatta, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Clinica Medica V   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain atrophy; Cirrhosis; EEG; Minimal hepatic encephalopathy; Psychometric tests

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPECTROSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 12244271467     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021982719654     Document Type: Article

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