Non-alcoholic acute Wernicke's encephalopathy: Role of MRI in non typical cases

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4099-4104

  Elefante, Andrea ^a   Puoti, Gianfranco ^b   Senese, Rossana ^a   Coppola, Cinzia ^b   Russo, Carmela ^a   Tortora, Fabio ^b   De Divitiis, Oreste ^a   Brunetti, Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic alcoholism; Glucose metabolism; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Malnutrition; Thiamine; Wernicke's encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

THIAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; DISORIENTATION; DROWSINESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS FEEDING; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; STOMACH LYMPHOMA; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TENDON REFLEX; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 84869881937     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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