J Korean Neurol Assoc > Volume 21(4); 2003 > Article

Journal of the Korean Neurological Association 2003;21(4): 425-428.

다기관위축 환자에서 나타난 베르니케뇌병증 1예

신동익 , 서대희* 채의병*

관동대학교 의과대학 신경과학교실, 신경외과학교실*

"A Case of Wernicke s Encephalopathy in a Patient with Multiple System Atrophy"

Dong-Ick Shin

"Department of Neurology, Department of Neurosurgery*, College of Medicine, Kwandong University"

Abstract

"A 41-year-old man was admitted due to altered mentality and confusion. He had showed progressive cerebellar ataxia, dysarthria, gait disturbance from his age of 33 years old. Brain MRI revealed high signal lesions in periaqueductal gray matter, mammillary bodies, median thalami and postcentral gyri bilaterally on T2-weighted images. Severe cerebellar atrophy was noted, too. We report a case of Wernicke s encephalopathy in a patient with probable multiple system atrophy. As far as we know, there have been no published report on this kind of case. Key Words: Wernicke s encephalopathy, Multiple system atrophy"