Stroke: Using the ABCD system to evaluate transient ischemic attack

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 470-471

  Giles, Matthew F ^a   Rothwell, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABCD 1 SYSTEM; ABCD 2 SYSTEM; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; RESEARCH DESIGN; STROKE;

EID: 70349174819     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2009.134     Document Type: Article

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