Case Reports in Neurological Medicine
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 896732, 5 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/896732
Case Report
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Secondary to Forceful Sneeze
Department of Neurology, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad 44080, Pakistan
Received 1 September 2014; Revised 27 December 2014; Accepted 28 December 2014
Academic Editor: N. Scott Litofsky
Copyright © 2015 Ali Zohair Nomani et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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