Recovery and outcome of frontal alien hand syndrome after anterior cerebral artery stroke

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 338, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 203-206

  Nowak, Dennis A ^a,b   Bösl, Kathrin ^b   Lüdemann Podubecka, Jitka ^b   Gdynia, Hans Jürgen ^b   Ponfick, Matthias ^a,b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b Klinik Kipfenberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alien hand; Case report; Frontal release; Outcome; Rehabilitation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALIEN HAND SYNDROME; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; SYMPTOM;

ALIEN HAND; CASE REPORT; FRONTAL RELEASE; OUTCOME; REHABILITATION; STROKE;

AGED; ALIEN HAND SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84896731452     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: 18785883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2014.01.007     Document Type: Article

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