Diagnostic yield of cerebral imaging in patients with acute confusion

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 245-250

  Hufschmidt, A ^a,b   Shabarin, V ^b  

^a Abt Neurologie   (Germany)

^b St Elisabeth Krankenhaus   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute confusional state; CCT; Cerebral imaging; Delirium; MRI

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CONFUSION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DROWSINESS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CONFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 51349133993     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: 16000404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2008.01006.x     Document Type: Article

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