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Marchiafava-bignami disease

First case in Germany

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Summary

The first case of Marchiafava-Bignami disease in a German is reported. The female patient was a heavy drinker and died after a fortnight of coma. Necropsy showed a typical degeneration of the corpus callosum and of the subcortical white matter of the right cerebral hemisphere. Furthermore, this case is the fourth of the cases of Marchiafava-Bignami disease in a woman described up to now.

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Es wird über den ersten Fall einer Marchiafava-Bignamischen Krankheit bei einer Deutschen berichtet. Die Patientin war schwere Trinkerin und verstarb nach einem zweiwöchigen Koma. Bei der Obduktion zeigte sich eine typische Degeneration des Balkens und der subcorticalen weißen Substanz der rechten Großhirnhemisphäre. Weiter ist dieser Fall unter den bisher beschriebenen Fällen von Marchiafava-Bignamischer Krankheit der vierte bei einer Frau.

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  1. Institute of Neuropathology, Free University of Berlin, Berlin

    Gerhard Franz Walter

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Walter, G.F. Marchiafava-bignami disease. Arch. Psychiat. Nervenkr. 226, 75–78 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00344126

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