Posterior fossa lesions associated with neuropsychiatric symptomatology

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 87, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 119-126

  Pollak, Lea ^a,b   Klein, Colin ^a   Rabey, Jose Martin ^a   Schiffer, Juana ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Neuropsychiatry; Posterior fossa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CISTERNA MAGNA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVERSION DISORDER; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROBLASTOMA; PARANOID PSYCHOSIS; PONS; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCHIZOIDISM; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREMOR;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL VENTRICLE NEOPLASMS; CHOROID PLEXUS NEOPLASMS; CISTERNA MAGNA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; CONVERSION DISORDER; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DANDY-WALKER SYNDROME; DELIRIUM, DEMENTIA, AMNESTIC, COGNITIVE DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROBLASTOMA; PARANOID DISORDERS; PONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREMOR;

EID: 0030294949     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00207459609070831     Document Type: Article

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