Calcified embolism: A rare cause of cerebral infarction

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chandran, Vijay ^a   Pai, Aparna ^a   Rao, Suryanarayana ^a  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CALCIFIED CEREBRAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; AGED; CALCINOSIS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COMPLICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FATALITY; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84878650326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-009509     Document Type: Article

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