Unilateral asterixis due to ipsilateral lesions in the pons and medulla
- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of Neurology
- Vol. 22 (5) , 661-663
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.410220519
Abstract
Unilateral asterixis was ipsilateral to the brainstem lesions in 2 patients. The finding of unilateral asterixis has been consistently associated with structural neurological disease, but contrary to previous reports it is not a reliable localizing or lateralizing finding.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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