Hypernatremia from a hunger strike as a cause of osmotic myelinolysis

Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 574-575

  Van Der Helm Van Mil, Annette H M ^a   Van Vugt, Jeroen P P ^a   Lammers, Gert Jan ^a   Harinck, Hubertus I J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEHYDRATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; INTUBATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 13244266919     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000150730.80325.11     Document Type: Article

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