The use of FAST and ABCD2 scores in posterior circulation, compared with anterior circulation, stroke and transient ischemic attack

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 228-229

  Gulli, Giosuè ^a,b   Markus, H S ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Civic Hospital of Verona   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABCD2 SCORE; AGNOSIA; ANTERIOR CIRCULATION STROKE; ATAXIA; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIPLOPIA; DROWSINESS; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHASIA; FACE ARM SPEECH TEST SCORE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; NAUSEA; POSTERIOR CIRCULATION STROKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTIGO; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ARM; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FACIAL MUSCLES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH DISORDERS; STROKE;

EID: 84855600966     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2010.222091     Document Type: Letter

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