Eyes wide open

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 343, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 50-55

  Morton Bours, Emma C ^a   Jacobs, Michael B ^a,b   Albers, Gregory W ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Stanford California and Cofounder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FATIGUE; FECES INCONTINENCE; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VOMITING; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBELLUM; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART TUMOR; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; PATHOLOGY; PONS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FATIGUE; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYXOMA; PONS;

EID: 0034612437     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200007063430108     Document Type: Article

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