The opercular-subopercular syndrome: Four cases with review of the literature

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 97-103

  Bakar, M ^a   Kirshner, H S ^b   Niaz, F ^b  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FACE MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNX MUSCLE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NOMENCLATURE; OPERCULAR SYNDROME; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TONGUE;

EID: 0032440363     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/1998/423645     Document Type: Article

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