Chronic thinner intoxication: clinico-pathologic report of a human case.

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  • A Escobar
  • C Aruffo
چکیده

A 27 year old Mexican male addicted for 12 years to glue-sniffing and thinner inhalation developed neurological and behavioural disturbances which led to hospital admission and death. Autopsy disclosed diffuse cerebral and cerebellar cortex atrophy and giant axonopathy both central and peripheral. The corpus callosum was atrophic secondarily to neuron loss in the neocortex.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

دوره 43 11  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1980