Improvement in aphasia scores after stroke is well predicted by initial severity

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1485-1488

  Lazar, Ronald M ^a   Minzer, Brandon ^a   Antoniello, Daniel ^a   Festa, Joanne R ^a   Krakauer, John W ^a   Marshall, Randolph S ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

aphasia; behavioral neurology; brain recovery; cerebral infarct; speech therapy; stroke recovery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH REHABILITATION; STROKE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITALIZATION; LANGUAGE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHASIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954175049     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.577338     Document Type: Article

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