Strategic infarcts of the thalamus in vascular dementia

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 203-204, Issue , 2002, Pages 91-97

  Szirmai, Imre ^a   Vastagh, Ildikó ^a   Szombathelyi, Éva ^a   Kamondi, Anita ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Dementia; Infarct; Subcortical vascular dementia; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THALAMUS;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037111354     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(02)00273-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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