Echocardiography in stroke patients (with emphasis on cryptogenic stroke)

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 799-804

  Homma, Shunichi ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; WARFARIN;

ANEURYSM; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS;

EID: 34247282880     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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