Pathological laughter as an unusual manifestation of acute stroke [3]

European Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 83-84

  Oh, Kyungmi ^a   Kim, Ho Jung ^a   Kim, Byung Jo ^a,b   Park, Kun Woo ^a   Lee, Dae Hie ^a  

^a Korea University Ansan Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CITALOPRAM; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOLOGICAL LAUGHTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION; LAUGHTER; PONS; STROKE;

EID: 37249050255     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109573     Document Type: Letter

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