Mapping the stroke landscape in Enugu urban

 A recent publication from one of my mentors in the Neurology and Stroke Unit of University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu. 


Getting to map the stroke landscape in Enugu urban.

 



https://pagepress.org/medicine/acbr/article/view/206/227

Neurologist, Professor, Researcher, Scientist, Mentor.

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