Spontaneous limb movements and posturing secondary to acute basilar artery occlusion: A potentially devastating seizure mimic

Practical Neurology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 42-44

  Wilson, L K ^a   Benavente, O R ^a   Woolfenden, A R ^a   Asdaghi, Negar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMB; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEURORADIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEIZURE;

NEURORADIOLOGY; STROKE;

AGED; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; SEIZURES; STROKE;

EID: 84893015829     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: 14747766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/practneurol-2013-000585     Document Type: Article

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