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First described in 1903 by the Italian pathologists Amico Bignami and Ettore Marchiafava.
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Marchiafava-Bignami disease
Today it means: A progressive neurological disease of alcohol use disorder or malnutrition, characterized by corpus callosum demyelination and necrosis and subsequent atrophy. Full definition →