Impaired sacculocollic reflex in lateral medullary infarction

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn FEB, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kim, Seonhye ^a,b   Kim, Hyo Jung ^b   Kim, Ji Soo ^b  

^a Yangsan Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Lateral medullary infarction; Saccule; Vertigo; Vestibular evoked myogenic potential; Wallenberg syndrome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865727490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2011.00008     Document Type: Article

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