Subarachnoid hemorrhage diagnosis: Lumbar puncture is still needed when the computed tomography scan is normal

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 827-831

  Sidman, Robert ^a,b   Connolly, Emily ^a   Lemke, Thomas ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; CT scan; intracranial bleed; neurology; subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0029737117     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03526.x     Document Type: Article

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