Medial medullary stroke: Report of seven patients and review of the literature

Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 882-890

  Bassetti, Claudio ^a   Bogousslavsky, Julien ^b   Mattle, Heinrich ^a   Bernasconi, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIA; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSARTHRIA; HUMAN; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PTOSIS; REVIEW; STROKE; VERTIGO;

EID: 0030960658     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.48.4.882     Document Type: Review

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