A non-alcoholic patient with acute Marchiafava-Bignami disease associated with gynecologic malignancy: Paraneoplastic Marchiafava-Bignami disease?

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 505-508

  Celik, Yahya ^a   Temizoz, Osman ^a   Genchellac, Hakan ^a   Cakir, Bilge ^a   Asil, Talip ^a  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebellar; Corpus callosum; Magnetic resonance imaging; Marchiafava Bignami disease; Ovarian cancer; Paraneoplastic syndrome; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

INFUSION FLUID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMATOSE PATIENT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LABORATORY TEST; MARCHIAFAVA BIGNAMI DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY CANCER; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; RED WINE; TENDON REFLEX; VITAL SIGN;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PARANEOPLASTIC CEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, NERVOUS SYSTEM; WINE;

EID: 34249037474     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.02.011     Document Type: Article

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