Impaired Volitional Closure of the Left Eyelid after Right Anterior Cerebral Artery Infarction: Apraxia Due to Interhemispheric Disconnection?

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 273-275

  Korn, Thomas ^a   Reith, Wolfgang ^a   Becker, Georg ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EYEBROW; EYELID CLOSURE; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL NERVE; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

AGED; APRAXIAS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EYELID DISEASES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFARCTION, ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; PARESIS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1042279527     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.61.2.273     Document Type: Article

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