Can mild head injury cause ischaemic stroke?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 267-269

  Shaffer, L ^a   Rich, P M ^b   Pohl, K R E ^c   Ganesan, V ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Paediatric Neurology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; BRAIN ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHASIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; THROMBOSIS;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 0037374366     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.88.3.267     Document Type: Article

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