Kinky vessels and double joints: Useful clues for childhood stroke?

Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 199-200

  Golomb, Meredith R ^a,c   Fullerton, Heather J ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER;

ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY TORTUOSITY SYNDROME; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN C DEFICIENCY; RISK FACTOR; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STROKE; VASCULAR DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ARTERY; CHILD; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; INCIDENCE; JOINT; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; TORSION;

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

EID: 33747060491     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000225059.65588.47     Document Type: Editorial

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