Posterior versus anterior circulation infarction: How different are the neurological deficits?

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2060-2065

  Tao, Wen Dan ^a,c   Liu, Ming ^a,b   Fisher, Marc ^d   Wang, De Ren ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Furie, Karen L ^c   Hao, Zi Long ^a   Lin, Sen ^a   Zhang, Cai Fei ^a   Zeng, Quan Tao ^a   Wu, Bo ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

anterior circulation infarction; neurological deficits; posterior circulation infarction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CIRCULATION INFARCTION; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DYSARTHRIA; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPLEGIA; HORNER SYNDROME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NERVE PARALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CIRCULATION INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SOMNOLENCE; SPEECH DISORDER; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; TINNITUS; TONGUE PARALYSIS; VERTIGO; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMIANOPSIA; HEMIPLEGIA; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PARALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSATION DISORDERS; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864289810     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.652420     Document Type: Article

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