Proximal weakness due to injury of the corticoreticular pathway in a patient with traumatic brain injury

NeuroRehabilitation

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 665-669

  Yeo, Sang Seok ^a   Kim, Seong Ho ^a   Jang, Sung Ho ^a  

^a Yeungnam University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

corticoreticular pathway; corticoreticulospinal tract; corticospinal tract; Diffusion tensor imaging; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORTICORETICULAR PATHWAY INURY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE INJURY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RADICULOPATHY; RETICULAR FORMATION; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; RETICULAR FORMATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84876281336     PISSN: 10538135     EISSN: 18786448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/NRE-130889     Document Type: Article

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