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Case Reports in Neurological Medicine
Volume 2015, Article ID 896732, 5 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/896732
Case Report

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Secondary to Forceful Sneeze

Ali Zohair Nomani, Haris Majid Rajput, Mansoor Iqbal, Zakir Jan, Muhammad Irshad, Mazhar Badshah, and Rao Sohail Yasin Khan

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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