Locked-in syndrome

British Medical Journal

Volumn 330, Issue 7488, 2005, Pages 406-409

  Smith, Eimear ^a   Delargy, Mark ^a  

^a The National Rehabilitation Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BREATHING EXERCISE; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; LUNG EMBOLISM; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUTISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGICAL CRYING; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; SPEECH THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; URINE INCONTINENCE; VEGETATIVE STAGE; VERTIGO; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMUNICATION AID; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DYSARTHRIA; SYNDROME;

CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DYSARTHRIA; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; SYNDROME;

EID: 13844315311     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.330.7488.406     Document Type: Review

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