Pulvinar sign in Wernicke's encephalopathy

CNS Spectrums

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 215-218

  Schmidt, Christian ^a   Plickert, Steffen ^b   Summers, David ^c   Zerr, Inga ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b St Katharinen Hospital   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d German National Reference Center for the Surveilance of Prion Diseases   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DYSMETRIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MEMORY DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TREMOR; VARIANT CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 77952559242     PISSN: 10928529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1092852900000043     Document Type: Letter

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