Timing of early changes in brain trauma

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-9

  Anderson, Ross McD ^a   Opeskin, Kenneth ^a  

^a VICTORIAN INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC MEDICINE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain; Physical injury; Timing of changes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; EOSINOPHILIA; FALLING; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL LESION; SPHEROID CELL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; NEUTROPHILS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031952625     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000433-199803000-00001     Document Type: Article

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