Stroke: Delays in the timely diagnosis of stroke in children

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 64-66

  Deveber, Gabrielle A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMYELINATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MIGRAINE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPROTECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGENATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SHORT SURVEY; STROKE; SYMPTOM; REVIEW; TIME;

CHILD; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; STROKE; TIME;

EID: 76849088936     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2009.228     Document Type: Short Survey

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