Nonalcoholic Wernicke encephalopathy with extensive cortical involvement: Cortical laminar necrosis and hemorrhage demonstrated with susceptibility- weighted MR phase images

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Pereira, D B ^a   Pereira, M L ^a   Gasparetto, E L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THIAMINE;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADULT; APHASIA; BABINSKI REFLEX; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN NECROSIS; CASE REPORT; COLON RESECTION; CONFUSION; CROHN DISEASE; DIPLOPIA; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUADRIPLEGIA; SEIZURE; SPASTICITY; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NECROSIS; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 79951666280     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2359     Document Type: Letter

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