A Benign Form of Isolated Angiitis of the Central Nervous System in Puerperium: An Identical Disorder to Postpartum Cerebral Angiopathy?

Internal Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 931-934

  Sugiyama, Yasuji ^a   Muroi, Akiko ^a   Ishikawa, Mikio ^a   Tsukamoto, Tetsuro ^a   Yamamoto, Teiji ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Benign clinical course; Cerebral hemorrhage; Pregnancy; Primary angiitis of the central nervous system (CNS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PUERPERAL DISORDER; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0031303142     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.36.931     Document Type: Article

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