Posterior Fossa Tumors With Pathological Laughter

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 235, Issue 14, 1976, Pages 1469-1471

  Achari, Amrit N ^a,b  

^a Brook General Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN TUMOR; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PONS ANGLE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; SKULL; SKULL TUMOR;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; LAUGHTER; MALE; SKULL; SKULL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0017298852     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1976.03260400035025     Document Type: Article

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