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Microsurgical Clip Obliteration of Middle Cerebral Aneurysm Using Intraoperative Flow Assessment
Published on: September 25, 2009
[A 73 year-old patient with thrombocytopenia and a giant cerebral vascular malformation]
F Salgado Ordóñez1, T Fuentes López, A Cuenca Guerrero
1Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga.
Abstract:
We report the case of a patient who was seen by purpura and thrombocytopenia. The differential diagnosis in this patient included the presence of cerebral giant vascular malformation, the intake antiepileptic drugs and the presence of a chronic liver disease caused by viral hepatitis C infection. However the final diagnoses of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura was made because of the presence of antiplatelets antibodies, the fluctuate evolution, and the increase of platelet count after costicosteroid therapy.
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