Locked-in syndrome due to bilateral cerebral peduncular infarctions with occlusion of persistent primitive trigeminal artery

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 601-604

  Kato, Yuji ^a   Nagoya, Harumitsu ^a,b   Furuya, Daisuke ^a,b   Deguchi, Ichiro ^a,b   Araki, Nobuo ^a   Tanahashi, Norio ^a,b   Shimazu, Kunio ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Locked in syndrome; Persistent primitive trigeminal artery (PPTA); Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLINKING; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSARTHRIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; SPEECH DISORDER; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRIGEMINUS ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUADRIPLEGIA; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 35948945740     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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