Diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage in the emergency department

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-87

  Edlow, Jonathan A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MIGRAINE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYMPTOM; TENSION HEADACHE;

EID: 0037325456     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0733-8627(02)00081-0     Document Type: Article

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