Stroke incidence and case fatality in southern greece: The Arcadia stroke registry

Stroke

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 363-370

  Vemmos, Kostas N ^a   Bots, Michiel L ^b   Tsibouris, Panagiotis K ^c   Zis, Vasilios P ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^b   Stranjalis, Georgios S ^a   Stamatelopoulos, Stamatis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Medicine   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fatal outcome; Greece; Incidence; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0032910005     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.30.2.363     Document Type: Article

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