Multiple cerebral infarction revealing Takayasu's disease: a case report in a 32‐year‐old man from Cameroon, sub‐Saharan Africa

This case suggests that young patients with few vascular risk factors, and who present with acute stroke syndrome involving more than one vascular territory should be screened for an inflammatory or infectious cause.

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Autores principales: Kamdem, Félicité, Kenmegne, Caroline, Hamadou, Ba, Mapoure, Yacouba, Lekpa, Fernando K., Mouliom, Sidicki, Jingi, Ahmadou Musa, Luma, Henry, Doualla, Marie Solange
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5889272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29636915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1380
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author Kamdem, Félicité
Kenmegne, Caroline
Hamadou, Ba
Mapoure, Yacouba
Lekpa, Fernando K.
Mouliom, Sidicki
Jingi, Ahmadou Musa
Luma, Henry
Doualla, Marie Solange
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Kenmegne, Caroline
Hamadou, Ba
Mapoure, Yacouba
Lekpa, Fernando K.
Mouliom, Sidicki
Jingi, Ahmadou Musa
Luma, Henry
Doualla, Marie Solange
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spelling pubmed-58892722018-04-10 Multiple cerebral infarction revealing Takayasu's disease: a case report in a 32‐year‐old man from Cameroon, sub‐Saharan Africa Kamdem, Félicité Kenmegne, Caroline Hamadou, Ba Mapoure, Yacouba Lekpa, Fernando K. Mouliom, Sidicki Jingi, Ahmadou Musa Luma, Henry Doualla, Marie Solange Clin Case Rep Case Reports This case suggests that young patients with few vascular risk factors, and who present with acute stroke syndrome involving more than one vascular territory should be screened for an inflammatory or infectious cause. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5889272/ /pubmed/29636915 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1380 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Reports
Kamdem, Félicité
Kenmegne, Caroline
Hamadou, Ba
Mapoure, Yacouba
Lekpa, Fernando K.
Mouliom, Sidicki
Jingi, Ahmadou Musa
Luma, Henry
Doualla, Marie Solange
Multiple cerebral infarction revealing Takayasu's disease: a case report in a 32‐year‐old man from Cameroon, sub‐Saharan Africa
title Multiple cerebral infarction revealing Takayasu's disease: a case report in a 32‐year‐old man from Cameroon, sub‐Saharan Africa
title_full Multiple cerebral infarction revealing Takayasu's disease: a case report in a 32‐year‐old man from Cameroon, sub‐Saharan Africa
title_fullStr Multiple cerebral infarction revealing Takayasu's disease: a case report in a 32‐year‐old man from Cameroon, sub‐Saharan Africa
title_full_unstemmed Multiple cerebral infarction revealing Takayasu's disease: a case report in a 32‐year‐old man from Cameroon, sub‐Saharan Africa
title_short Multiple cerebral infarction revealing Takayasu's disease: a case report in a 32‐year‐old man from Cameroon, sub‐Saharan Africa
title_sort multiple cerebral infarction revealing takayasu's disease: a case report in a 32‐year‐old man from cameroon, sub‐saharan africa
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5889272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29636915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1380
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