Pitfalls in the Diagnosis of Cerebellar Infarction

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-68

  Savitz, Sean I ^a   Caplan, Louis R ^a   Edlow, Jonathan A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebellar infarction; medical errors; misdiagnosis; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; BRAIN TOXICITY; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; GASTRITIS; HEADACHE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MENINGITIS; MIGRAINE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBELLUM; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845602264     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.06.060     Document Type: Article

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