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Tanawan Riangwiwat1, Chris Y Wu1, Alberto S Santos-Ocampo2

  • 1Department of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Case Reports in Neurological Medicine
|November 8, 2016
PubMed
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Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM) can cause central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis, leading to strokes. Immunosuppression effectively treated this rare WM complication without cryoglobulins.

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