Etiological patterns of stroke in young patients at a tertiary care hospital

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 201-204

  Samiullah, Shaikh ^a   Humaira, Mona ^a   Hanif, Ghani ^a   Ghouri, Aslam Aziz ^a   Shaikh, Khalid ^a  

^a LIAQUAT UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MALE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NEPHRITIS; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; SEPSIS; STROKE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 77449095058     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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