Repeated clinical episodes of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome [3]

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 653-

  Moriyama, Yasushi ^a   Muramatsu, Taro ^b   Kato, Motoichiro ^b   Kashima, Haruo ^b   Mimura, Masaru ^c  

^a Komagino Hospital   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; AMNESIA; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; CONFUSION; CONVULSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LETTER; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NYSTAGMUS; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PATHOGENESIS; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME;

HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODICITY; RECURRENCE;

EID: 19244365143     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1614.2004.01432.x     Document Type: Letter

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