Wernicke's encephalopathy: 'Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose'

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 180-186

  Thomson, Allan D ^a,d   Cook, Christopher C H ^b   Guerrini, Irene ^a   Sheedy, Donna ^c   Harper, Clive ^c   Marshall, E Jane ^d  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b The Royal College of Psychiatrists   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THIAMINE;

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG MEGADOSE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; LIVER INJURY; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTOXICITY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; NYSTAGMUS; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ALCOHOLISM; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 41749118353     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: 14643502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agm149     Document Type: Article

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