Acute vertigo with double vision - Brainstem stroke or stroke mimic?

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 626-627

  Schlaeger, Regina ^a   Naegelin, Yvonne ^a   Welge Lüssen, Antje ^a   Straumann, Dominik ^b   Gass, Achim ^a   Fluri, Felix ^a   Baumann, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIPLOPIA; GAZE; HUMAN; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SYMPTOM; VERTIGO;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIPLOPIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS; VISION TESTS;

EID: 77957778531     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000320256     Document Type: Article

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