A clinical approach to arterial ischemic childhood stroke: Increasing knowledge over the last decade

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Steinlin, Maja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

childhood stroke; etiology; manifestation; outcome; risk factors; treatment

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ARTERIAL ISCHEMIC STROKE; AMINOACIDEMIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY DISSECTION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGENITAL DISORDER OF GLYCOSYLATION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSLIPOPROTEINEMIA; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; ENDOCARDITIS; FABRY DISEASE; FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC DISORDER; HEMIPARESIS; HEPARINIZATION; HOMOCYSTINURIA; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MARFAN SYNDROME; MELAS SYNDROME; MENINGITIS; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULITIS;

ARTERIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PEDIATRICS; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84858313944     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: 14391899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1307449     Document Type: Review

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