Blunt brain injury activates the coagulation process

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 923-928

  Hulka, Frieda ^a   Mullins, Richard J ^a   Frank, Edmund H ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; PROTHROMBIN; THROMBOPLASTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 0029758842     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1996.01430210021004     Document Type: Article

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