Diagnostic yield of echocardiography in stroke: Should we improve patient selection?;Rendimiento diagnóstico del estudio ecocardiográfico en el accidente cerebrovascular: ¿debemos mejorar la selección de los pacientes?

Neurologia

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-18

  Secades, S ^a   Martin M ^a   Corros, C ^a   Rodriguez M L ^a   Garcia Campos A ^a   de la Hera Galarza, J M ^a   Lambert, J L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular accident; Transesophageal echocardiogram; Transthoracic echocardiogram

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOEMBOLIC STROKE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 84872357055     PISSN: 02134853     EISSN: 15781968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nrl.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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