Clinical significance of acute traumatic intracranial pneumocephalus

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 10-13

  Keskil, Semih ^a,b   Baykaner, Kemali ^a   Çeviker, Necdet ^a   Işik, Sedat ^a   Çengel, Mustafa ^a   Orbay, Toygun ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Radiology Gazi University Faculty of Medicine ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid leak; Computerized tomography; Head injuries; Pneumocephalus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; OTORRHEA; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RHINORRHEA; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031800361     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01111479     Document Type: Article

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