Foot drop: The first sign of an intracranial tumor?

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 490-492

  Tural, Selin ^a   Konya, Deniz ^a   Sun, Ibrahim H ^a   Gercek, Arzu ^a   Ozgen, Serdar ^a   Pamir, Necmettin M ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Foot drop; Parasagittal brain lesion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOOT DISEASE; FOOT DROP; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

EID: 33947529775     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2006.01.028     Document Type: Article

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