Clinical study of twenty-one patients with pure midbrain infarction

European Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 81-89

  Ogawa, Katsuhiko ^a   Suzuki, Yutaka ^a   Oishi, Minoru ^a   Kamei, Satoshi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance angiography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Penetrating arteries; Pure midbrain infarction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSARTHRIA; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; GAZE PARALYSIS; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE SYNDROME; MESENCEPHALON; MESENCEPHALON INFARCTION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYDRIASIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; PUPIL REFLEX; RISK FACTOR; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATAXIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS;

EID: 83755182737     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: 14219913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334105     Document Type: Article

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