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Stroke after chickenpox

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2007.125989

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    Up to a third of cases of acute ischaemic stroke in children occur after an episode of chickenpox. Now a retrospective study at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London (

    Elena Miravet and colleagues. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 2007;49:417–22
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    ) has provided more information about the clinical and radiological features of post-varicella stroke.

    During the period 1990–2004, 24 children (15 boys) were seen in the paediatric neurology unit having developed arterial ischaemic stroke up to 12 months after an …

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