Acute ischemic stroke: Relationship of brain lesion location & functional outcome

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 1501-1506

  Ezzat Nazzal, Mahmoud ^a   Ahmed Saadah, Mohammed ^b   Mohammed Saadah, Loai ^c   Mustafa Trebinjac, Suad ^d  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b DUBAI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United Arab Emirates)

^c TAWAM HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

^d RASHID HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Functional outcome; Ischemic stroke; MBI; Spiral CT brain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 70849110980     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280802627702     Document Type: Article

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