Sarcoidosis presentiing as brainstem ischemic stroke

Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1021-1022

  Navi, Babak B ^a   Deangelis, Lisa M ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; CLOPIDOGREL; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MENINGEAL BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; PARALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STROKE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARALYSIS; SARCOIDOSIS; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 64049100993     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000344566.57403.0a     Document Type: Article

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