Case 5-2004: A 57-Year-Old Man with Slurred Speech and Left Hemiparesis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 350, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 707-716

  Carter, Bob S ^a,b   Rabinov, James D ^a,b   Pfannl, Rolf ^a,b   Schwamm, Lee H ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SLURRED SPEECH; STROKE; TREATMENT PLANNING; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSIS; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SPEECH DISORDER;

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BRAIN; CAROTID ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PARESIS; SPEECH DISORDERS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1442265577     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030037     Document Type: Article

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