Foam sclerotherapy: A possible cause of ischaemic stroke?

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 582-583

  Picard, Candice ^a   Deltombe, Bertrand ^b   Duru, Cécile ^a   Godefroy, Olivier ^a   Bugnicourt, Jean Marc ^a  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CHG De Noyon   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; POLIDOCANOL;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; COMPRESSION GARMENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HUMAN; LETTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; VARICOSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; SMOKING; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBESITY; SCLEROTHERAPY; SMOKING; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO;

EID: 77952575950     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.179952     Document Type: Letter

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