Dysphagia in lateral medullary infarction (Wallenberg's Syndrome): An acute disconnection syndrome in premotor neurons related to swallowing activity?

Stroke

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 2081-2087

  Aydogdu, Ibrahim ^a   Ertekin, Cumhur ^a,c   Tarlaci, Sultan ^a   Turman, Bulent ^b   Kiylioglu, Nefati ^a   Secil, Yaprak ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Dysphagia; Electromyography; Lateral medullary syndrome; Motor neurons; Wallenberg's syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SWALLOWING; WALLENBERG SYNDROME;

EID: 0034837715     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/hs0901.094278     Document Type: Article

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