Stroke: TIA - Is ABCD2 useful in choosing who, what, where and when?

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 542-544

  Edlow, Jonathan A ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NEUROIMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; STROKE;

EID: 80555122969     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2011.140     Document Type: Article

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