Diagnosis and treatment of frontobasal skull fractures

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-23

  Kral, Thomas ^a,b   Zentner, Josef ^a   Vieweg, Uwe ^a   Solymosi, Laszlo ^a   Schramm, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

computerized tomography; skull fracture

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FRONTAL BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARANASAL SINUSES; SKULL BASE; SKULL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031049740     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01390521     Document Type: Article

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