Challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric stroke

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 199-208

  Jordan, Lori C ^a   Hillis, Argye E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ETIRACETAM; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; PHENYTOIN;

BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIECTOMY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 79953788482     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2011.23     Document Type: Review

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