Bilateral ptosis and changes in state of alertness in thalamic infarction

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-52

  Lampl, Yair ^a,b   Gilad, Ronit ^a,b  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ptosis; Stroke; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PTOSIS; THALAMUS;

AROUSAL; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033033824     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-8467(99)00002-5     Document Type: Article

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