Multiple cerebral infarctions from nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis mimicking cerebral vasculitis

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 798-802

  Vassallo, Robert ^a,d   Remstein, Ellen D ^b   Parisi, Joseph E ^c   Huston III, John ^c   Brown Jr , Robert D ^d  

^a Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b Division of Anatomic Pathology   (United States)

^c Department of Radiology ^*  (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032814901     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/74.8.798     Document Type: Article

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