Transient hemiageusia in cerebrovascular lateral pontine lesions

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 680-683

  Landis, B N ^a   Leuchter, I ^a   Ruíz, D San Millán ^a   Lacroix, J S ^a   Landis, T ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGEUSIA; AREFLEXIA; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TASTE; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; CALORIC VESTIBULAR TEST; CEREBELLUM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TASTE ACUITY; TONGUE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VASCULARIZATION; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; AGEUSIA; CALORIC TESTS; CEREBELLUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PONS; TASTE THRESHOLD; TONGUE; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 33646913026     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2005.086801     Document Type: Article

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