Recovery following lateral medullary infarction

Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1418-1422

  Nelles, G ^a,b,d   Contois, K A ^a   Valente, S L ^a   Higgins, J L ^a   Jacobs, D H ^a,c   Kaplan, J D ^a,b   Pessin, M S ^a,c  

^a and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Neurologisches Therapiezentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTOR CONTROL; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; STROKE; VASCULAR DISEASE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0031843316     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.50.5.1418     Document Type: Article

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