Posterior cerebral artery territory infarcts: Clinical features, infarct topography, causes and outcome

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 170-182

  Brandt, Tobias ^a   Steinke, Wolfgang ^b   Thie, Andreas ^c   Pessin, Michael S ^d   Caplan, Louis R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MARIEN HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^c City Hospital Itzehoe   (Germany)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causes; Clinical features; Infarct topography; Outcome; Posterior cerebral artery; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMBOLISM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SYMPTOM; THALAMUS;

CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEADACHE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MULTICENTER STUDIES; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0034005574     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000016053     Document Type: Article

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