Steroids and gunshot wounds to the spine

Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 576-584

  Heary, Robert F ^a,d   Vaccaro, Alexander R ^b,c   Mesa, Joseph J ^c   Northrup, Bruce E ^b   Albert, Todd J ^b,c   Balderston, Richard A ^b,c   Cotler, Jerome M ^b  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Center for Neurological Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Gunshot wound; Methylprednisolone; Spinal cord injury; Spine; Steroid

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CHILD; DEXAMETHASONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PANCREATITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0030824377     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199709000-00013     Document Type: Article

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