Ischemic stroke in an adolescent with arterial tortuosity syndrome

Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 360-361

  Cartwright, Michael S ^a   Hickling, William H ^a   Roach, E Steve ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ARACHNODACTYLY; ARTERIAL TORTUOSITY SYNDROME; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT LAXITY; MOOD DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; ARTERY; CHILD; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; INCIDENCE; JOINT; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TORSION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JOINTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS; TORSION;

EID: 33747047598     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000225056.66762.f9     Document Type: Article

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