Eyelid apraxia associated with bilateral paramedian thalamic infarct

Age and Ageing

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 343-344

  Myint, Phyo K ^a   Anderson, Kirstie N ^a   Antoun, Nagui M ^a   Warburton, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elderly; Eyelid apraxia; Intra arterial thrombolysis; Thalamic infarct; Top of the basilar syndrome

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADULT; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLEPHAROSPASM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSPHASIA; EYELID DISEASE; FALLING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTERNUCLEAR OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE PARALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; SPECTACLES; THALAMUS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

APRAXIA, IDEOMOTOR; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; EYELID DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; THALAMIC DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43149108148     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afn016     Document Type: Article

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