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Wernicke’s encephalopathy following Roux en Y gastric bypass surgery

Azra Zafar
Saudi Medical Journal December 2015, 36 (12) 1493-1495; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.12.12643
Azra Zafar
From the Department of Neurology, King Fahd Hospital of University, Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
FCPS (Med), FCPS (Neurology)
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vol. 36 no. 12 1493-1495
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.12.12643
PubMed 
26620994

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received July 1, 2015
  • Accepted September 5, 2015
  • Published online December 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Azra Zafar, FCPS (Med), FCPS (Neurology)⇑
  1. From the Department of Neurology, King Fahd Hospital of University, Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Azra Zafar, Assistant Professor, Consultant Neurologist, Department of Neurology, King Fahd Hospital of University, Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: azafar{at}uod.edu.sa
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