Making the diagnosis in patients with blackouts: It's all in the history

Practical Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 4-15

  Plug, Leendert ^a   Reuber, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBSERVATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REVIEW;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OBSERVATION;

EID: 59149085158     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: 14747766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2008.161984     Document Type: Review

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