Aspiration pneumonia and death in Huntington's disease

PLoS Currents

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Heemskerk, Anne Wil ^a   Roos, Raymund A C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CACHEXIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SUICIDE; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPHAGIA; MEDICAL INFORMATION;

EID: 84867532366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21573999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/currents.RRN1293     Document Type: Article

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