A 35-year-old woman with uterine fibroids and multiple embolic strokes

Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1479-1480

  Srivatsa, Arun ^a,b   Burdett, Jeffrey ^a   Gill, David ^a  

^a STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Box MED ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; UTERUS MYOMA;

EID: 17644427037     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000158677.85322.E6     Document Type: Article

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