Pearls & Oy-sters: Resolution of hemichorea following endarterectomy for severe carotid stenosis

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Galea, I ^a   Norwood, F ^c   Phillips, M J ^b   Shearman, C ^b   McMonagle, P ^a   Gibb, W R ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CHOREA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HEMICHOREA; HUMAN; LIMB WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OROFACIAL DYSKINESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PARESIS; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID STENOSIS; CHOREA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARESIS; PARIETAL LOBE; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 58149381728     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000336975.80810.74     Document Type: Article

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