Prime time for dissecting the entity of cryptogenic stroke

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 950-952

  Putaala, Jukka ^a   Tatlisumak, Turgut ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; WARFARIN;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY PREVENTION; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY;

HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84897373535     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.004676     Document Type: Editorial

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