Transient Anton's syndrome: A presenting feature of acute epidural hematoma at the confluens sinuum

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 156-159

  Yilmazlar, Selcuk ^a   Taskapilioglu, Ozgur ^a   Aksoy, Kaya ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anton's syndrome; Cortical blindness; Epidural hematoma; Head injury; Skull fracture; Visual field abnormality

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ALERTNESS; ANTON SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DURA MATER; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTTRAUMATIC COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS VENOSUS; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS; VISUAL FIELD;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; CRANIAL SINUSES; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037217483     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000068813     Document Type: Article

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