Clinical Reasoning: Recurrent strokes secondary to unknown vasculopathy
Ronda Lun1, Naomi Niznick2, Ruth Padmore2
1From the Divisions of Neurology (R.L., N.N., M.S., G.S., D.B.) and Hematology (J.M.), Department of Medicine, and Division of Hematopathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Ottawa and Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (R.P.), The Ottawa Hospital, Canada. rlun@toh.ca.
Neurology
|May 17, 2020
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