Bilateral ageusia caused by a unilateral midbrain and thalamic infarction

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 263-265

  Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a   Ioannis, Heliopoulos ^a   Vadikolias, Konstantinos ^a   Galetta, Steven L ^b   Piperidou, Charitomeni ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageusia; Infarction; Midbrain; Taste; Thalamic

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGEUSIA; ARTICLE; BILATERAL AGEUSIA; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; HEMIPARESIS; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDBRAIN INFARCTION; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; SENSORY EVALUATION; THALAMUS INFARCTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGEUSIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; HUMANS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; THALAMUS;

EID: 79959765564     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2010.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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