Contralateral hand anesthesia transiently improves poststroke sensory deficits

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 385-388

  Voller, Bernhard ^a,b   Flöel, Agnes ^a,c   Werhahn, Konrad J ^a,d   Ravindran, Shashi ^a   Wu, Carolyn W ^a   Cohen, Leonardo G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEAFFERENTATION; FEMALE; FOOT; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HAND; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSIBILITY; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; STROKE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOURNIQUET;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SENSATION DISORDERS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 32044452229     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.20689     Document Type: Article

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