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Acute Pancerebellar Syndrome During Recovery from Alcohol Withdrawal
Author(s) -
Venkatesh Swamy,
Vengagopal,
Sabin Thomas D.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of neuroimaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1552-6569
pISSN - 1051-2284
DOI - 10.1111/jon199334255
Subject(s) - medicine , pons , central pontine myelinolysis , magnetic resonance imaging , lesion , alcohol withdrawal syndrome , alcoholic hepatitis , anesthesia , alcohol , gastroenterology , alcoholic liver disease , pathology , radiology , biochemistry , chemistry , cirrhosis
An acute pancerebellar syndrome developed in a 40‐year‐old, alcoholic, malnourished woman while she was recovering from alcoholic hepatitis in the hospital. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed a lesion in the pons and helped identify this syndrome as central pontine myelinosis despite the lack of typical neurological signs and fluxes of serum sodium levels.