Prognostic factors in postraumatic severe diffuse brain injury

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1257-1261

  Prat, Ricardo ^a   Calatayud Maldonado, V ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Diffuse axonal injury; Diffuse brain injury; Head injury; Intracranial pressure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032406492     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007010050247     Document Type: Article

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