Stroke following Bothrops spp. snakebite

Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1577-1580

  Mosquera, Aurelio ^a,c   Idrovo, Luis A ^a   Tafur, Alfonso ^a   Del Brutto, Oscar H ^b,d  

^a HOSPITAL LUIS VERNAZA   (Ecuador)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICA KENNEDY   (Ecuador)

^c Hospital Militar   (Ecuador)

^d Air Center 3542   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING DISORDER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBELLUM HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SNAKEBITE; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASCULITIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0037799531     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000061614.52580.A1     Document Type: Article

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