Acute Marchiafava-Bignami disease with callosal, cortical, and white matter involvement

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-140

  Tuntiyatorn, Lojana ^a   Laothamatas, Jiraporn ^a  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Marchiafava Bignami disease; MR spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; THIAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MARCHIAFAVA BIGNAMI DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MARCHIAFAVA-BIGNAMI DISEASE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38849131937     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-007-0640-y     Document Type: Article

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