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ImPRESsive hypertensive encephalopathy
  1. Farid Salih1,
  2. Christoph Leithner1,
  3. Georg Bohner2,
  4. Christoph J Ploner1
  1. 1Klinik für Neurologie, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
  2. 2Institut für Radiologie, Abt. für Neuroradiologie, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
  1. Correspondence to Dr Farid Salih, Department of Neurology, Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; farid.salih{at}charite.de

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2011-200136

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