Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury and the vegetative state: Clinical and neuropathologic correlation

Neurology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 1981, Pages 991-997

  Dougherty, John H ^a   Rawlinson, Donald G ^a   Levy, David E ^a   Plum, Fred ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; BRAIN INJURY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EYE MOVEMENT; HISTOLOGY; HYPOXIA; INJURY; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; VEGETATIVE LIFE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMA; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; THALAMUS;

EID: 0019417583     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.31.8.991     Document Type: Article

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