Stroke as the First Clinical Manifestation of Takayasu's Arteritis
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Stroke as the First Clinical Manifestation of Takayasu's Arteritis
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Neurology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1662-680X
DOI: 10.1159/000369783