What is the best imaging method for patients with a presumed acute stroke

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 36-37

  Sadeghi, Roya ^a   Neher, Jon ^a   Anna, Leilani St ^b  

^a Valley Family Medicine Residency   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; NEUROIMAGING; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84893450694     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: 15337294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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