The impact of lesion location and lesion size on poststroke infection frequency

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 198-202

  Minnerup, Jens ^a   Wersching, Heike ^a   Brokinkel, Benjamin ^a   Dziewas, Rainer ^a   Heuschmann, Peter Ulrich ^b   Nabavi, Darius Günther ^c   Ringelstein, Erich Bernd ^a   Schäbitz, Wolf Rüdiger ^a   Ritter, Martin Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c VIVANTES KLINIKUM NEUKÖLLN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CALCULATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; STROKE UNIT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DYSARTHRIA; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; STROKE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 76549106790     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.182394     Document Type: Article

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