Seventh nerve palsies may be the only clinical sign of small pontine infarctions in diabetic and hypertensive patients

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 249, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1556-1562

  Thömke, Frank ^a   Urban, Peter P ^a   Marx, Jürgen J ^a   Mika Grüttner, Annette ^a   Hopf, Hanns C ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

7th nerve palsy; Brainstem; Diabetes; Facial palsy; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALORIC VESTIBULAR TEST; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; EYELID REFLEX; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAW OPENING REFLEX; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; PONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 0036460694     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-002-0894-y     Document Type: Article

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