Major stroke in thrombotic-thrombocytopenic purpura (Moschcowitz syndrome)

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-85

  Scheid, R ^a,b   Hegenbart, U ^a   Ballaschke, O ^a   Von Cramon, D Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DEFIBROTIDE; HEPARIN; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SEIZURE; SPLENECTOMY; STROKE; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC;

EID: 3042683636     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000078756     Document Type: Article

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