Brain-to-brain paradoxical embolism through patent foramen ovale after cerebral vein thrombosis [2]

European Neurology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 176-177

  Del Sette, Massimo ^a   Dinia, Lavinia ^a   Gandolfo, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CYCLOSPORIN; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ATAXIA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN VEIN; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DELIRIUM; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DIZZINESS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSMETRIA; ECHOGRAPHY; HEADACHE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NAUSEA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAGITTAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

CEREBRAL VEINS; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33847696221     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098471     Document Type: Letter

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