Visual hallucinations following a left-sided unilateral tuberothalamic artery infarction

Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 31-34

  Lee, Sangsoo ^a   Kim, Dae Yoon ^a   Kim, Jung Soo ^b   Kaur, Gagandeep ^c   Lippmann, Steven ^c  

^a Gangneung Asan Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence of motor or sensory deficits; Anomia; Brain infarction; Central nervous system pathology; Cerebrovascular accident; Diagnostic accuracy; Dysnomia; Encephalopathy; Left tuberothalamic artery; Stroke; Visual hallucinations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DEPERSONALIZATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REHABILITATION CARE; TUBEROTHALAMIC ARTERY INFARCTION; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

EID: 79959620581     PISSN: 21588333     EISSN: 21588341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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