Childhood stroke in Eastern Province, KSA: Pattern, risk factors, diagnosis and outcome

Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1613-1619

  Emam, Abdelhady Taha ^a,b   Ali, Alsayed Mohammed ^b   Babikr, Malek Ahmed ^b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b King Fahd Military Medical Complex   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Childhood; Diagnosis; Magnetic resonance angiography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Risk factors; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEMATOLOGY; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMORRHAGIC STROKE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; INFECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STROKE;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA; SEIZURES; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69749095689     PISSN: 08035253     EISSN: 16512227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2009.01421.x     Document Type: Article

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