Unusual clinical manifestation of a cerebral infarction restricted to the insulate cortex

Neurocase

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 94-96

  Metin, Bariş ^a   Melda, Bozluolcay ^a   Birsen, Ince ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Clinical manifestations; Infarction; Insulate cortex

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; HYPOKINESIA; INSULA; MALE; MELON; MENTAL FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT CARE; SENSATION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY EVALUATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TASTE DISORDER; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; HUMANS; MALE; TASTE;

EID: 34250786740     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790701316100     Document Type: Article

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