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Washington University Experience | METABOLIC | Wernicke Encephalopathy | 8A1 Question? Wernicke Encephalopathy (Case 8) 2
8A1-3 This patient has modest cortical atrophy, dilatation and blunting of the lateral ventricles which may reflect his Alzheimer disease with superimposition of multiple infarcts. It is clear that the mammillary bodies are small but the basal ganglia adjacent have numerous orange stained lacunes and the thalamus shows substantial shrinkage. Is this Wernicke encephalopathy?
