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Brain Hemorrhage in Mixed Connective Tissue DiseaseA Case ReportDepartment of Internal Medicine, Kitakyushu City Wakamatsu Hospital, Kitakyushu City, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka City
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka City
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka City
Department of Neurosurgery, Kitakyushu City Yahata Hospital, Kitakyushu City, Japan
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka City Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) uncommonly develops stroke, although collagen disease is an important condition for stroke. A nonhypertensive woman with MCTD developed massive putaminal hemorrhage. No obvious predisposing factors were revealed by clinical and pathologic examination. MCTD may contribute to the develop ment of brain hemorrhage by some mechanism other than hypertension.
Angiology, Vol. 45, No. 11,
967-972 (1994) |
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