Isolated infarcts of the pons

Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 165-175

  Bassetti, Claudio ^a,b   Bogousslavsky, Julien ^a   Barth, Alain ^a   Regli, Franco ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0030013921     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.46.1.165     Document Type: Article

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