Fou rire prodromique: Case report and systematic review of the literature

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-104

  Coelho, Miguel ^a   Ferro, José M ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

^b Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DROWSINESS; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; FOU RIRE PRODROMIQUE; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGICAL LAUGHTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISORDER;

CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; THALAMIC DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037641070     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070126     Document Type: Article

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