Aetiology and outcome of non-traumatic altered states of consciousness in north western Ethiopia

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-53

  Melka, A ^a   Tekie Haimanot, R ^b   Assefa, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; COMA; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISORIENTATION; ENCEPHALITIS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTOXICATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STUPOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMA; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030952618     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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