Heralding manifestations of basilar artery occlusion with lethal or severe stroke

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1621-1626

  Von Campe, G ^a   Regli, F ^a   Bogousslavsky, J ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AUTOPSY; BABINSKI REFLEX; BASILAR ARTERY; BASILAR ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVOLUTION; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPEECH DISORDER; STROKE; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

EID: 0346751962     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.74.12.1621     Document Type: Review

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