Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in a child with cyclical vomiting and hypertension: a case report
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- 6 April 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Medical Case Reports
- Vol. 5 (1) , 137
Abstract
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is characterized by headache, nausea and vomiting, seizures and visual disturbances. It has certain characteristic radiological features, which allow diagnosis in the appropriate clinical setting and enable appropriate clinical therapy to be instituted.Keywords
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