The contribution of alcohol, thiamine deficiency and cirrhosis of the liver to cerebral cortical damage in alcoholics

Metabolic Brain Disease - Tập 10 Số 1 - Trang 9-16 - 1995
Jillian J. Kril1
1Neuropathology Unit, Department of Anatomical Pathology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Missenden Road, 2050, Camperdown, Australia

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