Acute stroke diagnosis

American Family Physician

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-40

  Yew, Kenneth S ^a   Cheng, Eric ^b  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ARM WEAKNESS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; REVIEW; SPEECH DISORDER; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 67650547727     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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