Pearls and Oy-sters: Reversible iatrogenic Balint syndrome

Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Mejia, Nicte I ^a   Park, Soojin ^a   Ning, MingMing ^a   Buonanno, Ferdinando S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; LABETALOL;

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ANGIOPLASTY; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BALINT SYNDROME; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SYNDROME; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN DISEASE; EYE DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; EYE DISEASES; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME;

EID: 46049099413     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000314730.64232.5a     Document Type: Article

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