Does This Emergency Department Patient With Headache Require Neuroimaging?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 324-327

  Zehtabchi, Shahriar ^a   Wright, Brian ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MEDLINE; MIGRAINE; NEUROIMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 42949124868     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.06.001     Document Type: Editorial

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