Brain embolism caused by a mobile aortic thrombus with iron deficiency anemia

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 475-478

  Yakushiji, Yusuke ^a,b   Terasaki, Yasukazu ^a   Otsubo, Ryoichi ^a   Yasaka, Masahiro ^a   Oe, Hiroshi ^a   Yamada, Naoaki ^a   Nishigami, Kazuhiro ^a   Naritomi, Hiroaki ^a   Minematsu, Kazuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; IRON; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON THERAPY; LABORATORY TEST; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; AORTA, THORACIC; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; INFARCTION, ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 27944458761     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089335     Document Type: Article

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