Delayed gait disturbance due to injury of the corticoreticular pathway in a patient with mild traumatic brain injury

Brain Injury

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 511-514

  Kwon, Hyeok Gyu ^a   Jang, Sung Ho ^a  

^a Yeungnam University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Corticoreticular pathway; Corticoreticulospinal tract; Corticospinal tract; Diffusion tensor imaging; Head trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMNESIA; ARM; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CIRCULAR COIL; COGNITION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICORETICULAR PATHWAY; DELAYED GAIT DISTURBANCE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HEAD INJURY; HIP; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMED CONSENT; KNEE; LATENT PERIOD; LEG; MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL SCORE; MEMORY ASSESSMENT SCALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NECK PAIN; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROMUSCULAR STIMULATOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUADRIPLEGIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPRAIN; STANDING; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WEAKNESS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; COMPLICATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS;

EID: 84901598777     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2014.887228     Document Type: Article

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