Have CT-will travel: To boldly go where no scan has gone before

Neurology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 130-131

  Schwamm, Lee H ^a   Starkman, Sidney ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AMBULANCE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPROTECTION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TRAVEL;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 84873687538     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31827d44ca     Document Type: Editorial

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