Wernicke encephalopathy after pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic cancer

Pancreas

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1157-1159

  Karayiannakis, Anastasios J ^a   Souftas, Vasileios D ^b   Bolanaki, Helen ^a   Prassopoulos, Panos ^b   Simopoulos, Constantinos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CALCIUM; CHOLESTEROL; THIAMINE; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL ABUSE; AMNESIA; ANAMNESIS; ATAXIA; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LETTER; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; THALAMUS; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 80053012425     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: 15364828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPA.0b013e31822182f5     Document Type: Letter

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