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[Alcoholic polyneuropathy].

Iu M Savel'ev
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A classification of alcoholic polyneuropathy is offered. This classification was developed by the author on the basis of neurological examinations of 354 alcoholics. Combinations of various disturbances of peripheral innervation (within the limits of a polyneuropathy) both between each other and with various cerebral disturbances are described. As a result, the following forms of the alcoholic polyneuropathy are distinguished: vegetative, sensor, mixed, pseudodiabetic, and motor ones, as well as Korsakov's syndrome. Both the cerebral and the peripheral disturbances are transient: on being developed in the period of the abstinence they gradually subside.

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Iu M Savel'ev. 1981. [Alcoholic polyneuropathy].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6267852/

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