A 46-yr-old woman with ataxia and blurred vision 3 months after bariatric surgery

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1575-1577

  Bhardwaj, Atul ^a   Watanabe, Miki ^a   Shah, Jagdish R ^a  

^a Pinnacle Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THIAMINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATAXIA; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LETTER; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH BYPASS; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ATAXIA; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 44949161831     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.01880_10.x     Document Type: Letter

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