Progressive unsteadiness in a 68-year-old man with longstanding abdominal pain and altered bowel habit

Practical Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 210-220

  Pal, Suvankar ^a   Malhotra, Ravi M ^b   Davenport, Richard J ^a   Smith, Colin ^c   Talbot, Kevin ^d  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b King Fahad Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE COURSE; DIVERTICULOSIS; FATALITY; HUMAN; JEJUNUM DISEASE; MALABSORPTION; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; SPINAL GANGLION; SUBACUTE COMBINED DEGENERATION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COPPER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DIVERTICULUM; FATAL OUTCOME; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HUMANS; JEJUNAL DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; MALE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; SUBACUTE COMBINED DEGENERATION;

EID: 70349785877     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: 14747766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.182451     Document Type: Article

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