Teaching NeuroImages: Bilateral anterior thalami and fornix macrohemorrhage in Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome

Neurology

Volumn 77, Issue 22, 2011, Pages

  Nazarov, B ^a   Jeannin, S ^a   Mejdoubi, M ^a   Signate, A ^a   Smadja, D ^a  

^a Pierre Zobda Quitman Hospital   (Martinique)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THIAMINE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; AMNESIA; ATAXIA; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN FORNIX HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVERTICULITIS; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOTE; NYSTAGMUS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SIGMOIDECTOMY; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME;

EID: 82955225280     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31823a0ca5     Document Type: Note

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