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Science 2 June 1978:
Vol. 200. no. 4345, pp. 1076 - 1078
DOI: 10.1126/science.653357
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Science, Vol 200, Issue 4345, 1076-1078
Copyright © 1978 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Reversible cerebral atrophy in recently abstinent chronic alcoholics measured by computed tomography scans

PL Carlen, G Wortzman, RC Holgate, DA Wilkinson, and JC Rankin

Eight chronic alcoholics received repeated computed tomography scans. Four, who maintained abstinence and functionally improved, showed partially reversible cerebral atrophy. Two nonabstinent patients and two abstinent patients who had completed functional improvement before the first scan showed no change in atrophy.


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