Focal Neurological Syndromes in Hepatic Failure
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Focal Neurological Syndromes in Hepatic Failure.
THE neuropsychiatric disturbances occurring in patients with liver disease have been recognized since the time of the Babylonians (Sherlock, I958). Only in the last ten years, however, have their clinical and biochemical significances been appreciated (Walshe, I95 I) (Adams and Foley, 1953). The clinical and EEG findings have been described in detail by Sherlock (I955), Davidson and Summerskill...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1963
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.39.457.653