title: Acute lethal stroke affecting all brain-supplying cerebral arteries due to paradoxical embolism through a patent foramen ovale.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Neurology and Neuroradiology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Heckmann
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Handschu
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Huk
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Neundörfer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001488:Basilar Artery; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002536:Cerebral Arteries; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D020766:Intracranial Embolism / Q000150:complications*; D020767:Intracranial Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology*