Dominant posterior-variant alien hand syndrome after acute left parietal infarction

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 633-635

  Kessler, Jonathan ^a   Hathout, Gasser ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alien hand syndrome; Parietal lobe; Posterior variant AHS; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALIEN HAND SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; PARIETAL LOBE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; SENSATION DISORDERS;

EID: 67650468641     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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