Assessment of the relationship between timing of fixation of the fracture and secondary brain injury in patients with multiple trauma

Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 739-745

  Kalb, David C ^a   Ney, Arthur L ^a   Rodriguez, Jorge L ^a,b   Jacobs, Donald M ^a   Van Camp, Joan M ^a   Zera, Richard T ^a   Rockswold, Gaylan L ^a   West, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTALLOID; FEMALE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORGAN PERFUSION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

EID: 0031711560     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.1998.91395     Document Type: Article

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