CT findings in persistent vegetative state following blunt traumatic brain injury

Brain Injury

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 865-870

  Reider Groswasser, Irith ^a,c   Costeff, Hanan ^b,c   Sazbon, Leon ^b,c   Groswasser, Zeev ^b,c  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b LOEWENSTEIN REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0030693302     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026990597122936     Document Type: Article

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