title: Marchiafava-Bignami disease. First case in germany.
abstract: The first case of Marchiafava-Bignami disease in a German is reported. The female patient was a heavy drinker and died after a fortnight of coma. Necropsy showed a typical degeneration of the corpus callosum and of the subcortical white matter of the right cerebral hemisphere. Furthermore, this case is the fourth of the cases of Marchiafava-Bignami disease in a woman described up to now.
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000473:pathology*; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D011604:Psychoses, Alcoholic / Q000473:pathology; D013577:Syndrome