What goes around comes around? Wernicke encephalopathy and the nationwide shortage of intravenous multivitamins revisited

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 31, 2012, Pages

  Perko, Ross ^a   Harreld, Julie H ^a   Helton, Kathleen J ^a   Sabin, Noah D ^a   Haidar, Cyrine E ^a   Wright, Karen D ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE; MULTIVITAMIN; THIAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVENOUS; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; VITAMINS; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869133725     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2012.42.7237     Document Type: Article

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