Pediatric Neurology Briefs (Jun 1998)

Wernicke’s Encephalopathy with Self Starvation

  • J Gordon Millichap

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-12-6-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 6
pp. 44 – 44

Abstract

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A 10-year-old boy was referred for inpatient psychiatric evaluation at the Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, because of a 2-month history of food refusal and a 9 kg weight loss after choking on a raisin.

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