Does the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale favor left hemisphere strokes?

Stroke

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2355-2359

  Woo, Daniel ^a   Broderick, Joseph P ^a   Kothari, Rashmi U ^a   Lu, Mei ^b   Brott, Thomas ^c   Lyden, Patrick D ^d   Marler, John R ^e   Grotta, James C ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Dominance, cerebral; Infarction volume; Tomography, x ray computed

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE;

EID: 0032730230     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.30.11.2355     Document Type: Article

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