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Idiopathic ischemic infarction of the brain stem in children

✍ Scribed by Richard G. Curless

Book ID
104714759
Publisher
Springer
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
788 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
0256-7040

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✦ Synopsis

Three cases of idiopathic brain-stem infarction are added to the literature on 12 children. There is no age predilection, and the youngest case is 3 years old. However, there is a striking male preponderance of 13:2. The residual neurological deficit covers the range of normal to quadriparesis. Laboratory studies investigating hypercoagulopathy, platelet dysfunction and atrial septal defect may provide an etiology for some cases in the future.

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