Body lateropulsion as an isolated or predominant symptom of a pontine infarction

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 372-374

  Yi, Hyon Ah ^a   Kim, Hyun Ah ^a   Lee, Hyung ^a   Baloh, Robert W ^b  

^a Keimyung University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; STROKE; TEGMENTUM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; BRAIN STEM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FALLING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN STEM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 33947720305     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.106237     Document Type: Article

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