Brain SPECT in a case of Wernicke Korsakoff syndrome
Hervás-Benito, I.; Pérez-Velasco, R.
Revista de Neurologia 33(7): 631-634
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0210-0010 PMID: 11784951 Document Number: 538798
In this article we report a 44 year old male with chronic alcoholism as antecedent and Wernicke Korsakoff s syndrome, studied with brain CT, MR and SPECT. In this work we review the different conclusion obtained with different studies and in different stages of the chronic alcoholism disease. Although several authors have described impaired frontal blood flow in the Wernicke Korsakoff s syndrome, in our case the parietal, temporal and occipital cortex were the most affected.