Frequency and clinicopathological characteristics of alcoholic cerebellar degeneration in Japan: A cross-sectional study of 1,509 postmortems

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-51

  Yokota, Osamu ^a,b   Tsuchiya, Kuniaki ^a,c   Terada, Seishi ^b   Oshima, Kenichi ^c   Ishizu, Hideki ^d   Matsushita, Masaaki ^c   Kuroda, Shigetoshi ^b   Akiyama, Haruhiko ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN MATSUZAWA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Zikei Institute of Psychiatry   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Alcohol dependence; Asymptomatic; Cerebellar degeneration; Frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; CELL LOSS; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEMORY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL-INDUCED DISORDERS, NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTOPSY; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION;

EID: 33745394047     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-006-0059-7     Document Type: Review

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