Transient ischaemic attack: Is routine use of computerised cerebral tomography worthwhile?

Cardiovascular Journal of South Africa

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 212-214

  Mulaudzi, T V ^a   Robbs, J V ^a   Woolgar, J ^a   Pillay, W ^a   Pillay, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SPEECH DISORDER; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 28244480409     PISSN: 10159657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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