Cerebral infarction associated with mobile thoracic ascending aortic thrombus in a patient with essential thrombocythemia

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 705-710

  Hino, Hirotake ^a   Terasaki, Tadashi ^a   Hashimoto, Yoichiro ^a   Hara, Yasuyuki ^a   Uchino, Makoto ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anticoagulant therapy; Brain infarction; Essential thrombocythemia; Thrombus of the aorta; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; HYDROXYUREA;

AGED; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; THORACIC AORTA; THROMBOCYTHEMIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; AORTA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; THROMBOCYTHEMIA, HEMORRHAGIC; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032708326     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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