Partially Reversible Dementia Associated With the Use of Para-Dichlorobenzene in the Case of PICA

Psychosomatics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 283-285

  Passov, Victoria ^a   Milliner, Eric K ^b   Rundell, James R ^b  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,4 DICHLOROBENZENE; IRON; NAPHTHALENE; 4 DICHLOROBENZENE; 4-DICHLOROBENZENE; CHLOROBENZENE;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; ATAXIC DYSARTHRIA; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DYSMETRIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INGESTION; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; LABORATORY TEST; LETHARGY; MONTREAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT; PARTIALLY REVERSIBLE DEMENTIA; PICA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SLURRED SPEECH; STOMACH BYPASS; TENDON REFLEX; BRAIN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHLOROBENZENES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PICA;

EID: 80052880091     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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