Brain lesions are most often reversible in acute thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Neurology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-70

  Burrus, Tamika M ^a   Wijdicks, Eelco F M ^a   Rabinstein, Alejandro A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR CLEAVING PROTEINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANKIN SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

EID: 68249147531     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181aaea1b     Document Type: Article

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