Relationship between white blood cell count at admission and short term outcome in patients with acute cerebral infarction

Clinical and Investigative Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Peng, Yanbo ^b   Wang, Dali ^b   Zhang, Jiang ^b   Xue, Xinhong ^b   Wang, Zhuo ^b   Tong, Weijun ^a   Xu, Tan ^a   Zhang, Yonghong ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HEBEI UNITED UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 80051824658     PISSN: 0147958X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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