Emergent CT evaluation of stroke

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 553-581

  Sarkarati, David ^a   Reisdorff, Earl J ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ingham Regional Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEURORADIOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKULL FRACTURE; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

EID: 0036696943     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0733-8627(02)00020-2     Document Type: Review

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