Stroke management in a university hospital in the largest South American city

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 66, Issue 2 B, 2008, Pages 308-311

  Conforto, Adriana Bastos ^a,b   De Paulo, Rodrigo Bomeny ^b   Patroclo, Cristiane Borges ^b   Pereira, Samira Luísa Dos Apóstolos ^b   Miyahara, Helder De Souza ^b   Da Fonseca, Camila Barião ^b   Yamamoto, Fabio Iuji ^b   Marchiori, Paulo Eurípides ^b   Evaristo, Eli Faria ^b   Scaff, Milberto ^b  

^a HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Emergency treatment; Stroke; Thrombolytic therapy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SOUTH AMERICA; STROKE; STROKE UNIT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 47749106467     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2008000300004     Document Type: Article

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