Poststroke partial seizures presenting as hemifacial spasm [2]

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1981-1982

  Towfigh, Allen ^a   Mostofi, Navid ^a   Motamedi, Gholam K ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ETIRACETAM; PHENYTOIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DYSARTHRIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RECURRENCE; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36248995829     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21660     Document Type: Letter

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