Clinicopathological heterogeneity in the classification of mild head injury

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 245-250

  Culotta, Vincent P ^a,d   Sementilli, Mark E ^a   Gerold, Kevin ^b   Watts, Clark C ^c  

^a R ADAMS COWLEY SHOCK TRAUMA CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d Greenspring of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomographic scan; Glasgow Coma Scale; Intracranial injury; Mild head injury; Neurobehavioral recovery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL FRACTURE;

ADULT; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKULL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030069653     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199602000-00002     Document Type: Article

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