Bilateral Paramedian Thalamo-midbrain Infarction Showing Electroencephalographic Alpha Activity

Internal Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 443-448

  Yazawa, Shogo ^a,b   Kawasaki, Shoichiro ^a   Kanemaru, Ayako ^a   Kuratsuwa, Yuko ^a   Yabuoshi, Rika ^a   Ohi, Takekazu ^b  

^a Nobeoka Prefectural Hospital   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Akinetic mutism; Alpha coma; EEG; MRI; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ALPHA RHYTHM; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0035349870     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.443     Document Type: Article

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