Clinical and diagnostic features of delayed hypoxic leukoencephalopathy

Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 473-477

  Shprecher, David R ^a   Flanigan, Kevin M ^b   Smith, A Gordon ^a,b   Smith, Shawn M ^b   Schenkenberg, Thomas ^b   Steffens, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; COCAINE; ESTERASE; FENTANYL; METHADONE; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTOMATISM; BABINSKI REFLEX; BACTERIURIA; BALANCE DISORDER; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CATATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COUGHING; DELAYED HYPOXIC LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; DELTA RHYTHM; DISORIENTATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MYALGIA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARANOIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THETA RHYTHM; URINE INCONTINENCE; WEAKNESS;

EID: 61849128892     PISSN: 08950172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/jnp.2008.20.4.473     Document Type: Article

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