Door-to-door survey of major neurological disorders (project) in Al Quseir City, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 767-771

  El Tallawy, Hamdy N A ^a   Farghaly, Wafaa M A ^a   Rageh, Tarek A ^a   Shehata, Ghaydaa A ^a   Badry, Reda ^a   Metwally, Nabil A ^b   El Moselhy, Esam A ^b   Hassan, Mahmoud ^b   Sayed, Mohamed A ^c   Waris, Ahmed A ^a   Hamed, Yaser ^b   Shaaban, Islam ^b   Hamed, Mohamed A ^a   Kandil, Mahmoud Raafat ^a  

^a ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c SOHAG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Incidence; Neurological disorders; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHETOSIS; BELL PALSY; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOREA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EGYPT; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

EID: 84878383286     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S36956     Document Type: Article

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