Warning Compulsive Behavior Preceding Acute Ischemic Stroke
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Warning compulsive behavior preceding acute ischemic stroke.
On April 23, at 8: 00, she developed a deep comatose state with tetraplegia. She was admitted at 13: 00 to our intensive care unit. Multimodal stroke MRI with diffusion-weighted imaging revealed multiple cerebellar infarctions and brainstem involvement. Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) showed a mid-basilar thrombosis ( fig. 1 ). Dear Sir, Abrupt onset of compulsive behavior (CB) without oth...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Neurology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0014-3022,1421-9913
DOI: 10.1159/000095140