1. Acute hemiparesis in Sturge-Weber syndrome.
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Jung, Agam, Raman, Ashok, and Hill, Chris Rowland
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STURGE-Weber syndrome , *ARTERIAL occlusions , *BRAIN imaging , *TOMOGRAPHY , *VALPROIC acid , *ASPIRIN , *CALCIFICATION , *PATIENTS , *DIAGNOSIS ,HULL Royal Infirmary (Hull, England) - Abstract
The article focuses on the case of a 29-year-old woman who has a history of Sturge-Weber syndrome was admitted to Hull Royal Infirmary in Hull, England due to headache, with right forehead port wine stain and left hemiparesis. Right cerebral hemisphere marked atrophy-associated with wide calcification was diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) brain imaging. It notes that the anti-migraine agent sodium valproate and low dose aspirin were medicated to the patient due to chronic venous occlusion.
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- 2009
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