Limb-shaking transient ischemic attacks: Case report and review of literature

BMC Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ali, Saad ^a   Khan, Muhib Alam ^a   Khealani, Bhojo ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; JOINT HYPERMOBILITY; LEG MOVEMENT; LIMB; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREMOR;

EID: 32944463611     PISSN: 14712377     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-6-5     Document Type: Review

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