Reliability of practical Iranian criteria (PIC) for classification of brain infarct

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 96-99

  Ghandehari, Kavian ^a,c   Mouradian, Mikael ^b   Izadi, Zahra ^a   Salam, Abdul ^b  

^a BIRJAND UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c BIRJAND UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Classification; Infarct; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; STROKE;

EID: 18144410211     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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