Head injuries due to falls caused by seizures: A group at high risk for traumatic intracranial hematomas

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 433-437

  Zwimpfer, Thomas J ^b   Brown, Jennifer ^b   Sullivan, Irene ^b   Moulton, Richard J ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

epilepsy; fall; head injury; intracranial hematoma; seizure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; ETIOLOGY; FALLING; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031027184     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1997.86.3.0433     Document Type: Article

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