Early surgery and other indicators influencing the outcome of war missile skull base injuries

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 194-199

  Splavski, Bruno ^a   Vranković, Djuro ^a   Šarić, Gordan ^a   Saftić, Robert ^a   Maksimović, Zlatko ^a   Bajek, Goran ^b   Iveković, Velebit ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^b KBC RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Missile injury; Outcome; Skull base; Surgery; War

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROATIA; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SKULL BASE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAR; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0032169801     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(98)00047-0     Document Type: Article

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