Hounsfield units in pseudo subarachnoid hemorrhage: worth looking for
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Hounsfield units in pseudo subarachnoid hemorrhage: worth looking for
Copyright © 2017 The Korean Society of Emergency Medicine Hounsfield units in pseudo subarachnoid hemorrhage: worth looking for Subramanian Senthilkumaran, Nanjundan Karthikeyan, Namasivayam Balamurugan, Ponniah Thirumalaikolundusubramanian Department of Emergency & Critical Care, Erode Emergency Care Hospital, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India Department of Emergency Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2383-4625
DOI: 10.15441/ceem.17.246