Symptomatic blunt head injury in children - A prospective, single- investigator study

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 461-465

  Fisher, Jay D ^a,b  

^a University Medical Center of Southern Nevada   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; NEUROTRAUMATOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0030861312     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992289703600805     Document Type: Article

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