Treatment of post-stroke dysphagia with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 155-161

  Khedr, E M ^a   Abo Elfetoh, N ^a   Rothwell, J C ^b  

^a ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortico oesophageal pathway; Dysphagia; Hemispheric stroke; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HAND FUNCTION; HAND GRIP; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHAM PROCEDURE; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

AGED; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PERISTALSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 59249106801     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: 16000404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2008.01093.x     Document Type: Article

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