title: Wernicke's encephalopathy in a patient with unresectable gastric carcinoma and literature review.
abstract: Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE) is a disease classically associated with nutrition deficiency. It is characterized by typical symptoms like confusion, ataxia and ophthalmoparesis, and developes due to thiamine deficieny in alcoholic patients. Recently, it has been shown that WE could ocur in patients with gastric carcinoma without a history of alcohol use. In this paper, we have made some suggestions about early diagnosis, treatment and prevention of WE by discussing the development of WE in a patient with unresectable gastric carcinoma, who had been inpatient for a long time and given radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Rize, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sema Yilmaz
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Rakici
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Kanuni Research and Training Hospital Trabzon, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sema Dogan
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Erdemli
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Rize, Turkey.
authors.forename: Zihni Acar
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Yazici
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, Kanuni Research and Training Hospital Trabzon, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ercument
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cengiz
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Kanuni Research and Training Hospital Trabzon, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ozlem Gunay
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Acar
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, School of Medicine, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Rize, Turkey.
authors.forename: Gulnihal
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tufan
keywords: Wernicke’s encephalopathy; chemoradiotherapy; parenteral nutrition