Calcific cerebral embolism in systemic calciphylaxis

Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 295-297

  Katsamakis, George ^a   Lukovits, Timothy G ^a   Gorelick, Philip B ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; STROKE;

EID: 0031867913     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.51.1.295     Document Type: Article

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