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Can the combination of a negative computed tomography result and a negative lumbar puncture safely exclude the diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage in patients with thunderclap headache?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2015

Mohammed Aref Malabarey  and
David Barbic
Mohammed Aref Malabarey
Affiliation:
McGill Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, QC
David Barbic*
Affiliation:
McGill Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, QC
*
McGill Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Royal Victoria Hospital, 687 Pine Avenue, Montreal, QC H3A 1A1; david.barbic@mail.mcgill.ca

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Keywords

computed tomographylumbar puncturesubaforachnoid hemorrhage
Type
Knowledge to Practice • Des connaissances à la pratique
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , March 2012 , pp. 113 - 115
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2013

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