Pathological laughter caused by frontal glioblastoma - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 307-310

  Tsutsumi, Satoshi ^a   Yasumoto, Yukimasa ^a   Ito, Masanori ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional anatomy; Glioblastoma; Pathological laughter

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CINGULATE GYRUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERREFLEXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL LAUGHTER;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAVIGATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 48249099255     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.48.307     Document Type: Article

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