Intracranial hemorrhage associated with tangential gunshot wounds to the head

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 672-678

  Anglin, Deirdre ^a,c   Hutson, H Range ^b   Luftman, Joseph ^a   Qualls, Stephanie ^a   Moradzadeh, Doris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Firearm injury; Graze wound to the head; Gunshot wound to the head; Intracranial hemorrhage; Tangential gunshot wound to the head

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031816560     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1998.tb02484.x     Document Type: Article

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