Wernicke’s Encephalopathy with Self Starvation

Authors

  • J Gordon Millichap Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-12-6-6

Keywords:

Occasional Soft Food, Horizontal Nystagmus, Ophthalmoplegia

Abstract

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.

Published

1998-06-01

Issue

Section

Metabolic Disorders