Alpha-pattern coma in primary brainstem hemorrhage; clinical, electrophysiologic, and cerebral blood flow studies

Internal Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 905-908

  Hayashi, Ryoichi ^a,b   Hanyu, Norinao ^a   Yanagisawa, Nobuo ^b  

^a NAGANO RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked potential; Coma; Electroencephalogram; Single photon emission tomography (SPECT); Somatosensory evoked potential

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IOFETAMINE; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; COMA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALPHA RHYTHM; AMPHETAMINES; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; IOFETAMINE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030277854     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.35.905     Document Type: Article

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