Writing good abstracts

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 256-259

  Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a   Hennerici, Michael G ^b  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b European Stroke Conference ^*

Author keywords

Abstracts, stroke; Outcome; Peer review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; WRITING;

ABBREVIATIONS; ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; AUTHORSHIP; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONGRESSES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; MANUSCRIPTS, MEDICAL; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; WRITING;

EID: 33947288181     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098324     Document Type: Article

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