Stroke-related mortality at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 180-184

  Wiredu, E K ^a   Nyame, P K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035542011     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/eamj.v78i4.9059     Document Type: Article

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