The strokes that killed Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ali, Rohaid ^a   Connolly, Ian D ^a   Li, Amy ^a   Choudhri, Omar A ^a   Pendharkar, Arjun V ^a   Steinberg, Gary K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Franklin D. Roosevelt; Joseph Stalin; Stroke; Winston Churchill

Indexed keywords

ART; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; PUBLIC FIGURE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

FAMOUS PERSONS; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; RUSSIA; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84984917524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2016.4.FOCUS1575     Document Type: Article

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