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Case Reports

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Changes in a Head and Neck Cancer Patient with Wernicke Encephalopathy and Visual Loss

Rimas V. LukasDepartment of NeurologyCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Juan PiantinoDepartment of Pediatrics—Section of Pediatric Neurology
,
Susan KsiazekDepartment of Surgery—Section of Ophthalmalogy
,
Jeffrey NicholsDepartment of Surgery—Section of Ophthalmalogy
,
Ezra E. W. CohenDepartment of Medicine—Section of Hematology-Oncology
,
Daniel HarafDepartment of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
,
Jacqueline BernardDepartment of Neurology
&
Kourosh RezaniaDepartment of Neurology
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Pages 272-275 | Received 08 Mar 2011, Accepted 13 Jun 2011, Published online: 02 Dec 2011

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