A case of infantile autism with pediatric wernicke's encephalopathy due to severe eating disorder

No To Hattatsu

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-46

  Watanabe, Seiji ^a   Yamakura, Shinji ^b   Hirano, Keiko ^a   Okumura, Yoshinori ^a   Aiba, Hideo ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Tsubasa Shizuoka Hosp Home for Children or Persons with Severe Motor and Intellectual Disabilities   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THIAMINE;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EATING DISORDER; HUMAN; INFANTILE AUTISM; LEIGH DISEASE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; STARVATION; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EATING DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THIAMINE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 62449244134     PISSN: 00290831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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