Sudden 'stroke-like' onset of homonymous hemianopsia due to bacterial brain abscess

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 143, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 190-194

  Shintani, Shuzo ^a   Tsuruoka, Shin ^a   Koumo, Yoshihiko ^a   Shiigai, Tatsuo ^a  

^a Toride Kyodo General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial brain abscess; Homonymous hemianopsia; Sudden 'stroke like' onset

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030296380     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(96)00227-4     Document Type: Article

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