Stroke-like episode involving a cerebral artery in a patient with MELAS

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 70-71

  Noguchi, Atsuko ^a   Shoji, Yutaka ^a   Matsumori, Mika ^a   Komatsu, Kazuo ^b   Takada, Goro ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Akita Kumiai General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DICHLOROACETIC ACID; MANNITOL; THIAMINE; UBIDECARENONE;

ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHY; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STROKE;

CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME;

EID: 21344437783     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2005.01.013     Document Type: Article

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