Asterixis in Focal Brain Lesions
- 1 November 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology
- Vol. 36 (11) , 705-707
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1979.00500470075015
Abstract
• Asterixis was observed in 20 cases of focal brain lesions. Metabolic or toxic factors were excluded. An electromyogram study of asterixis was carried out in nine cases to establish the diagnosis. The site of the focal lesion was either parietal or mesencephalic and was always contralateral to the asterixis. "Focal asterixis" could result from a dysfunction of the sensorimotor integration in the parietal lobe and the midbrain.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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