Posterior fossa syndrome after cerebellar stroke

Cerebellum

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 686-691

  Mariën, Peter ^a,d,e,f   Verslegers, Lieven ^a   Moens, Maarten ^b   Dua, Guido ^a   Herregods, Piet ^a   Verhoeven, Jo ^c,e  

^a MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e VLAC (Vlaams Academisch Centrum)   (Belgium)

^f ZNA Middelheim ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome; Cerebellum; Foreign accent syndrome; Posterior fossa syndrome; SPECT; Stroke

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; TECHNETIUM 99M;

AGED; AKINETIC MUTISM; APATHY; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSARTHRIA; ECHOLALIA; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FRONTAL ASSESSMENT BATTERY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GAIT; GERMANY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERSEXUALITY; MALE; MEANDER; MIDDELHEIM FRONTALITY SCALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; REPEATABLE BATTERY FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL STATUS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STROOP TEST; TRIAL MAKING TEST; VERBAL HOSTILITY; VERY ELDERLY; WECHSLER ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE III; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

AGED; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CYSTEINE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MUTISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84892374277     PISSN: 14734222     EISSN: 14734230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12311-013-0478-7     Document Type: Article

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