title: The relationship between brain and liver damage in chronic alcoholic patients.
abstract: CT scan measures of topographical brain changes, liver status as determined by biopsy, and clinical factors were studied in a group of detoxified chronic alcoholic patients. It was found that greater topographical brain changes were associated with greater severity of liver disease.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008108:Liver Diseases, Alcoholic / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed