Stroke: Is spot sign the answer for intracerebral haemorrhage?

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 300-301

  Romero, Javier M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A;

ARTERIAL THROMBOEMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN SURGERY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY;

CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84862295611     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2012.93     Document Type: Short Survey

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