Mimics of childhood stroke: Characteristics of a prospective cohort

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 704-709

  Shellhaas, Renée A ^a   Smith, Sabrina E ^a   O'Tool, Erin ^a   Licht, Daniel J ^a   Ichord, Rebecca N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential diagnosis; Hemiparesis; Neuroimaging; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DELIRIUM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIGRAINE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM MALFORMATION; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; STROKE; VITAL SIGN; WEAKNESS; BRAIN DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEMIPLEGIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SENSATION DISORDERS;

EID: 33748419256     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-2676     Document Type: Article

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